Westernize Quotes & Sayings

A Mystic And A Drunk

The Universe turns on an axis.
Let my soul circle around a table
like a beggar, like a planet
rolling in the vast, totally helpless and free.

The knight and the castle move jaggedly
about the chessboard, but they're actually
centered on the king. They circle.

If love is your center, a ring
gets put on your finger.

Something inside the moth
is made of fire.

A mystic touches the annihilating tip
of pure nothing.

A drunkard thinks peeing is absolution.
Lord, take these impurities from me.

The lord replies, First, understand
the nature of impurity. If your key is bent,
the lock will not open.

I fall silent.
King Shams has come.
Always when I close, he opens. — Jalaluddin Rumi

I can no longer pretend that I believe in God. It's highly possible that I lost this belief when I started having sexual relationships. — Catherine Millet

Students need to be educated on how to be good citizens of their country and what their rights and responsibilities are as members of society. The same issues need to be addressed with regard to the emerging digital society, so that students can learn how to be responsible and productive members of that society. — Mike Ribble

He screamed and shouted 'Wooeeeee!' at Guitar's list, but because his life was not unpleasant and even had a certain amount of luxury in addition to its comfort, he felt off center. He just wanted to beat a path away from his parents' past, which was also their present and which was threatening to become his present as well. — Toni Morrison

But as nothing, western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to westernize amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting, leading families like mine, otherwise glad of republican progress, to furnish their houses like museums. — Orhan Pamuk

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young. — Erika Lopez

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests. — Maria Nikiforova

We can't be happy all the time. If we were we wouldn't be people, we would be game show hosts. — Laurence O'Keefe

Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come. — Mandy Hale

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. — Emir Kusturica

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk. — Jill Paton Walsh

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. — Aesop

A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction. — Amish Tripathi

My family's from Eastern Europe. — David Sax

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West. — Martin Jacques

People fall when they already fell.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
Babaji
September 12, 2016 — Petra Hermans