Sara > Sara's Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است
باز من دیوانه ام ، مستم
باز می لرزد ، دلم ، دستم
باز گویی در جهان دیگری هستم
های ! نخراشی به غفلت گونه ام را ، تیغ
های ، نپریشی صفای زلفکم را ، دست
و آبرویم را نریزی ، دل
ای نخورده مست
لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است”
― مهدی اخوان ثالث / Mehdi Akhavan Sales

“همه
لرزش دست و دلم
از آن بود که
که عشق
پناهی گردد،
پروازی نه
گریز گاهی گردد.

ای عشق ای عشق
چهره آبیت پیدا نیست
***
و خنکای مرحمی
بر شعله زخمی
نه شور شعله
بر سرمای درون

ای عشق ای عشق
چهره سرخت پیدا نیست.
***
غبار تیره تسکینی
بر حضور ِ وهن
و دنج ِ رهائی
بر گریز حضور.
سیاهی
بر آرامش آبی
و سبزه برگچه
بر ارغوان
ای عشق ای عشق
رنگ آشنایت
پیدا نیست”
― احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

“گر بدین سان زیست باید پست
من چه بی شرمم اگر فانوس عمرم را به رسوائی نیاویزم
بر بلند کاج خشک کوچه بن بست

گر بدین سان زیست باید پاک
من چه ناپاکم اگر ننشانم از ایمان خود، چون کوه
یادگاری جاودانه بر تراز بی بقای خاک!”
― احمد شاملو

“To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”
― Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“چراغی در دست
چراغی در دلم.
زنگار روحم را صیقل می زنم
اینه ئی برابر اینه ات می گذارم
تا از تو
ابدیتی بسازم.”
― احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamloo

“آشفتگي من از اين نيست که تو به من دروغ گفته اي، از اين آشفته ام که ديگر نميتوانم تو را باور کنم.


”
― فريدريش نيچه

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Roxana, when you go back to America, please tell others that our country is not only about the nuclear issue--it's also about people like us." -- my former cellmate, Mahvash Sabet, who is serving 20 years in prison in Iran as one of the leaders of the minority Baha'i faith”
― Roxana Saberi

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God