Famous Quotes

"The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.."

"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good."

"I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose."

"For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

"What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms."

"Sad stories make good books"

"If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?"

"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold."

"If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart."

"Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together."

"You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become."

"The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form."

"The truth is I didn’t need therapy"

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

"If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience."

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

"It is when things are at worst you will get the best."

"Again and again I will suffer"

"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see."

"How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him."

"You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer."

"What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart."