Vera Nazarian Quotes

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.

Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!

Every story needs to be worth telling.

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now?

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.