Turning 18 Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key! — Rumi

It's like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won't hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can't take hold. — Diane Von Furstenberg

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too. — Hugh Laurie

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director. — Denzel Washington

New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. — Vanessa Ferlito

There are people, of course, who think it unscientific to take anything seriously; they do not want their intellectual playground disturbed by graver considerations. But the doctor who fails to take account of man's feelings for values commits a serious blunder, and if he tries to correct the mysterious and well-nigh inscrutable workings of nature with his so-called scientific attitude, he is merely putting his shallow sophistry in place of nature's healing processes. — C. G. Jung

Her nausea increased, the dialect had become unfamiliar, the way our wet throats bathed the words in the liquid of saliva was intolerable. A sense of repulsion had invested all the bodies in movement, their bone structure, the frenzy that shook them. How poorly made we are, she thought, how insufficient. The broad shoulders, the arms, the legs, the ears, noses, eyes, seemed to her attributes of monstrous beings who had fallen from some corner of the black sky. — Elena Ferrante

The problem is solvable puzzle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape — Maya Angelou