Ahmed Khalaf > Ahmed's Quotes

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”
― Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

“It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”
― Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

“So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca”
― Lee Iacocca

“And there's always a way to begin with.”
― Autumn Doughton, I'll Be Here

“The difference between you and everyone else, is everyone else. And that’s a lot, so you should feel special.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.”
― Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer

“You cannot explore the universe if you think that you are the center of it.”
― Joshua Suya Pelicano

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.