Vola Baba Quotes & Sayings

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. — Jen Knox

Everything begins when you understand that you, and you above all, are Max Brod: this, for W., is the founding principle. That you (whoever you are) are Max Brod, and everyone else (whoever that might be) is Franz Kafka. Which is to say, you will never understand anyone else and are endlessly guilty before them, and that even with the greatest effort of loyalty, you will betray them at every turn. — Lars Iyer

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded. — Nellie Bly

I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective, seeing it in the heavens as a planet as opposed to being down here among it, most of the people, in fact, I guess all of the people who have had that experience, shift their thinking. — Edgar Mitchell

Like the sound of a velvet curtain being drawn aside on a peaceful morning to let sunlight wake someone very special to you. — Haruki Murakami

If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day. — Matt Mullenweg

It's rare for a first lady to be running for president. — Gwen Ifill

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world — Lucille Clifton

You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine. — Jakob Dylan

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way. — Patricia McConnell

Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness? — Erich Fromm

We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self. — Thich Nhat Hanh