Niloufar Abolfathian > Niloufar's Quotes

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“To perceive is to suffer.”
― Aristotle

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Hope is a waking dream.”
― Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
― Marie Curie

“I am the earthquake of love. How you feel is my fault.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.”
― John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

“زندگی رسم خوشایندی است
زندگی بال و پری دارد با وسعت مرگ
پرشی دارد اندازه عشق
زندگی چیزی نیست که لب طاقچه عادت از یادمن و تو برود
زندگی جذبه دستی است که می چیند
زندگی نوبر انجیر سیاه در دهان گس تابستان است
زندگی بعد درخت است به چشم حشره
زندگی تجربه شب پره در تاریکی است
زندگی حس غریبی است که یک مرغ مهاجر دارد
زندگی سوت قطاری است که درخواب پلی می پیچد
زندگی دیدن یک باغچه از شیشه مسدود هواپیماست
خبر رفتن موشک به فضا
لمس تنهایی ماه
فکر بوییدن گل در کره ای دیگر
زندگی شستن یک بشقاب است
زندگی یافتن سکه دهشاهی در جوی خیابان است
زندگی مجذور اینه است
زندگی گل به توان ابدیت
زندگی ضرب زمین در ضربان دل ما
زندگی هندسه ساده و یکسان نفسهاست”
― سهراب سپهری

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
― Stephen Richards

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving

“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity. ”
― Eric Fromm

“Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Oscar Wilde said: 'Each man kills the thing he loves.' And it's true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far. I have known a lot of people who, when their personal calling was within their grasp, went on to commit a series of stupid mistakes and never reached their goal - when it was only a step away. This is the most dangerous of the obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it. Renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans”
― Paulo Coelho

“Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“the fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives. Oscar Wilde said: “Each man kills the thing he loves.” And it’s true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far. I have known a lot of people who, when their personal calling was within their grasp, went on to commit a series of stupid mistakes and never reached their goal—when it was only a step away. This is the most dangerous of the obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it: renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
― Henry Ford

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“آب در یک قدمیست , روشنی را بچشیم ..”
― Sohrab sepehri, صدای پای آب