Adnama Anderson > Adnama Anderson's Quotes

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Salvador Dalí

“We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.”
― Edward Lewis

“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
― Beau Taplin

“For a day, just for one day,
Talk about that which disturbs no one
And bring some peace into your
Beautiful eyes.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez a

“It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day

It will begin to happen
Again on earth -

That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are
Lovers,

And women and women
Who give each other
Light,
Often will get down on their knees

And while so tenderly
Holding their lover's hand,

With tears in their eyes,
Will sincerely speak, saying,

'My dear,
How can I be more loving to you;

How can I be more
Kind?”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی

“he says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part… I have two languages, but I have long forgotten— which is the language of my dreams”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“he says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part… I have two languages, but I have long forgotten— which is the language of my dreams”
― Mahmoud Darwish's farwell to Edward Said

“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”
― Shanti

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“الشيطان في عقلك وليس في جسد المرأة”
― ليلى المطوع

“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.”
― Earl Gray Stevens

“cruel mothers are still mothers. they make us wars. they make us revolution. they teach us the truth. early. mothers are humans. who sometimes give birth to their pain. instead of children. – hate”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“i have always been the woman of my dreams.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“why can we never talk about the blood. the blood of our ancestors. the blood of our history. the blood between our legs. – blood”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“i will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“the worst
thing that ever happened
to
the world
was
the white man coming across gun powder.
–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“a lie is simply a lie. it draws its strength from belief. stop believing in what hurts you. – power”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“The one thing I know for sure is that feelings are rarely mutual, so when they are, drop everything, forget belongings and expectations, forget the games, the two days between texts, the hard to gets because this is it, this is what the entire world is after and you’ve stumbled upon it by chance, by accident––so take a deep breath, take a step forward, now run, collide like planets in the system of a dying sun, embrace each other with both arms and let all the rules, the opinions and common sense crash down around you. Because this is love kid, and it’s all yours. Believe me, you're in for one hell of a ride, after all––this is the one thing I know for sure.”
― Beau Taplin

“To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai.”’ ‘“Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.”
― Anthony Capella, The Food of Love

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey