Ata Jafari > Ata's Quotes

“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

“Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“As a runner, that's what I know how to do. To strike out on a trail and just go and go and go like there's no tomorrow; to run until my problems fade beneath my feet and the world becomes new again.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“I have found my church, and it is at the end of a long trail on a distant mountainship. It is there that I feel most at peace, entirely content and whole.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“Never, under any circumstances, argue with a tired woman. She is always right.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“Life is a series of obstacles and setbacks; living is overcoming them.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”
― Dasheill Hammett

“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“اری اری
زندگی زیباست
زندگی اتشگهی
دیرنده پابرجاست
گر بیفروزیش
رقص شعله اش
در هر کران
پیداست
ورنه خاموشست و
خاموشی گناه ماست”
― سیاووش کسرایی / Siavosh Kasraii

“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!”
― Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer