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“It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”
― William Saroyan

“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”
― William Saroyan

“Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.”
― William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

“All things lie dark in possibility.”
― William Saroyan

“Be, beget, begone.”
― William Saroyan

“Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.”
― William Saroyan

“Morning is best when it begins with the last hours of night. ...Enough of culture's hours. I am a peasant. Enough of feasting. I want hunger. Enough of fat. I want muscle. Enough of pity. I want humor. Enough of vanity. I want pride.”
― William Saroyan

“Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.”
― William Saroyan

“Never underestimate the power of the spiritual world.”
― Eileen Keledjian, Armenian Affairs

“Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.”
― Zoroaster

“Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.”
― Edward Dahlberg

“On the plane of illusion the divine fire is the divine wrath.” Rudolf Steiner”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“O friends, to a good place we've come to live, come in springtime! In that place a very brief moment! So brief is life!”
― Nezahualcóyotl