Quotes - Farah E (felashram) (Lakewood, OH) Showing 1-30 of 128

#1

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

1953 likes

#2

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

1441 likes

#3

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

3115 likes

#4

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love, obsession, sleep

4185 likes

#5

“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

tags: inspirational-attitude

1111 likes

#6

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

tags: relationships

3382 likes

#7

“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.”
― Chris Colfer

tags: inspirational

807 likes

#8

“I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.”
― Chris Colfer

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#9

“Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.”
― Chris Colfer

tags: chris-colfer

543 likes

#10

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books

2752 likes

#11

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

3343 likes

#12

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

1107 likes

#13

“The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.”
― Hasan Al-Basri

tags: gratitude, life, reality, world

233 likes

#14

“Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.”
― Umera Ahmed

tags: good, islam, pain, peer-e-kamil, spiritual, sword

238 likes

#15

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

4555 likes

#16

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life

4290 likes

#17

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth

1802 likes

#18

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

1872 likes

#19

“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational

1406 likes

#20

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

1728 likes

#21

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

2521 likes

#22

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

1808 likes

#23

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

”
― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

1615 likes

#24

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

1142 likes

#25

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
― Timothy Mo

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#26

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

1566 likes

#27

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

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