Shamal Quotes & Sayings

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you. — Ray Davies

I wonder if pain, the kind that doesn't just happen when your cat is killed, or when your aunt dies, but the kind that you have to live with... can it ever be a friend? — Jennifer Lynch

You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball. — Crystal Woods

Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium. — Jason Priestley

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. — Terence McKenna

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet. — Henry Ward Beecher

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough. — Edward Abbey

Love is giving with no expectations ... Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved. — Bernie Siegel

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?
The student replied: "Everything!
Kobun, paused, then said: "No, you". — Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but it'd not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters — Lev Grossman

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility. — Anthony Liccione

Forget the past. Tomorrow is a new day. New day, new hopes and new life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth. — Joseph Conrad

In the distance, up the street, too far away for Sam to want to chase after, a couple of kids, maybe ten years old, maybe not even that. Barely visible in the false moonlight. Just outlines. The kids passing a bottle back and forth, taking swigs, staggering. — Michael Grant

Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you. — Bill Bryson