Quotes - Elahe (elsanity) (Tehran, Iran) Showing 1-24 of 24

#1

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

#2

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

2348 likes

#3

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need

2318 likes

#4

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

2995 likes

#5

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― jonathan safran foer

tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude

3125 likes

#6

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47057 likes

#7

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135573 likes

#8

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

12565 likes

#9

“خلاء همیشه نظر ما را جلب کرده است. هر چقدر گودتر و تاریکتر باشد بیشتر ما را به خود می خواند. مثل یک انگیزۀ مرموز عاشقانه. حذر کردن از این انگیزه بی فایده است”
― Oriana Fallaci, If the Sun Dies

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#10

“Dragostea e infinitul aflat la îndemâna javrelor care se căţălesc, iar eu am demnitatea mea! Cel care vorbeşte de viitor e un netrebnic, doar clipa de faţă contează. A-ţi invoca posteritatea, înseamnă să ţii un discurs viermilor.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

3 likes

#11

“If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”
― Hayley Williams (lead sing of Paramore)

tags: hayley-williams, paramore, singer

303 likes

#12

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

1589 likes

#13

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

2166 likes

#14

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3795 likes

#15

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: farenheit-451

1383 likes

#16

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16252 likes

#17

“گر بگویم که مرا
حال پریشانی نیست
رنگ رخسار
خبر می دهد
از سر ضمیر”
― Saadi

50 likes

#18

“هوشم ببر زمانی… تا کی غم زمانه”
― سعدی, غزلیات سعدی

90 likes

#19

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

3585 likes

#20

“My father's love was always strong
My mother's glamour lives on and on.
Yet still inside I felt alone,
for reasons unknown to me.”
― Lana Del Rey

tags: lana-del-rey, old-mineu

76 likes

#21

“It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

tags: friendship, inspirational

115 likes

#22

“Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

tags: eloquence, silence

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