Thursday, July 17, 2008

Quotes that make me go Aha!


I would like to share few quotes,that I have come across , either by reading a book or an article that has transcend my curiosity into wonderment with eyes glued to the lines , heart desiring to read it again , mind numb of any questions and an expression of delight "AHA" randomly emitting out of my oral cavity.This list will undergo certain increments after encountering new quotes and after organizing my strewn literary collections.
1.It was a little like INTO THE SAND , with claude barron , which she'd seen a couple of weeks ago.In that picture Claude Baroon enlists in the foreign legion because rita carrol marries another guy. The other guy turn out to be a cheater and drinker , and so rita carrol leaves him and travels out into the desert where Claude Baroon is fighting the arabs.By the time Rita Carrol gets there he's in the hospital , wounded , or not a hospital really but just a tent , and she tells him she loves him and claude barroon says ," I went into the desert to forget about you.But the sand was the color of your hair.The desert sky was the color of your eyes.There was nowwhere I could go that wouldn't be you." And then he dies..
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenies.


2.
*Koran Says ,'Blessed is he in whose hand is the kingdom, and he who has power over all things.Who created death and life that he may try you.'Koran speaks the thruth my girl.Behind every trial and every sorrow that he makes us shoulder.God has a reason."


*Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window.She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world.That all the sighs drifted up the sky,gathered into clouds,then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below.As a reminder of how woman like us suffer ,she’d said .How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

*Boys,Laila came to see , treated friendship the way they treated sun :its existence undisputed;its radiance best enjoyed , not to b
eheld directly.
-A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

3.Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art
-Memoirs of geisha by Aurther Golden.


4.
*Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It is as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that is going on around you, but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

*People only go mad when they try to escape from routine.


*We're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroys us.
-Veronica Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

5.
* True experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world (love) without owning it.


* Some Brazilian superstitions: When you visit someone for the first time, you must not be the first to open the door when you leave, because if you do, you will never return to that house.

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Eleven MINUTES by paulo coelho
6.*When you love, things make even more sense.

*When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.


*And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.


*When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

*I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.


* Peope are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.


*When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you
-Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

7. “Life is Sacred. Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate then you broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you”
-Sri Sri Ravishankar


8. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character
- Martin Luther King Jr
~With Aum

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