I Myself. Quotes
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.
Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese
I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.
Who am I? I am not nothing but this moment in the flow of life. This flow of life is not in my control
He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.
Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!
The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.
We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deeply into the magnificent, eternal, ridiculous, overwhelming love that God has for us.
I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children
The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue
Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.
The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.