Maz > Maz's Quotes

“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“People think of education as something they can finish.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warson Shire

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
― Louis XIV

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.”
― Sandra Cisneros (Author)

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day, spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. I want, I think, to be omniscient.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“كانت تعشق القراءة لكن الكتب لاتحمى من الخوف ,ولاتجعل الانسان قويا”
― غيوم ميسو, Sauve-moi

“هل لما الحق بالفعل في حماية أصدقائنا من أنفسهم؟”
― غيوم ميسو, La fille de papier

“هناك أسئلة تظل بلا أجوبة هكذا, وينبغي أن يقبلها كما هي”
― غيوم ميسو, Sauve-moi

“يكمن سر الفعالية لدى سقراط في أنه لم يحاول تعليم الناس بل على العكس ، كان يعطي الانطباع بأنه يريدأن يتعلم من محدثه لم يكن يعمل كأستاذ رديء ...على العكس كان يناقش و يجادل .”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“لقد كان سقراط بتظاهره عدم المعرفة ، يجبر الناس على التفكير كان يعرف أن يلعب دور الجاهل أو على الأقل دور من هو أكثر غباء .”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.”
― Guillaume Musso, Will You Be There?

“Your soulmate can also be your downfall. ”
― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?