Jawaher R. AlJanahi > Jawaher R. AlJanahi's Quotes

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I'll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it with all my heart, though you may discount the heart of an old nanny like me. For real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Moonblood

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

“Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”
― Dale Carnegie

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.”
― Epictetus

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your being.”
― Hafez

“Victor Hugo once said, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Sometimes I worry I’ll never find a place to call home.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“It’s always my impulse to ignore the bad, to run toward the good.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life