Ayaz Shahwani > Ayaz's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 177

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next »

like

#1

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

12678 likes

like

#2

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

147989 likes

like

#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

150650 likes

like

#4

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: enlightenment, forgiveness, inspirational-quotes, knowledge, letting-go

1866 likes

like

#5

“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

tags: enlightenment, existence

1520 likes

like

#6

“When a man is standing at the top of a cliff, it isn’t fear of falling that keeps him rooted to the edge — it’s the fear of not being able to resist the desire to jump, just to see what falling feels like.”
― Cristelle Comby, Russian Dolls

tags: abyss, cliff, desire, fear, jumping

4 likes

like

#7

“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.”
― Jyrki Vainonen

tags: art, artists, creativity, surrealism, writers, writing

91 likes

like

#8

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

9082 likes

like

#9

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

24406 likes

like

#10

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: just-litsen, sarah-dessen, time

6523 likes

like

#11

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time

5060 likes

like

#12

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

4072 likes

like

#13

“I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: quotes-to-live-by

258 likes

like

#14

“Poems On Time

The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.

Time is a wealth of change,
but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

73 likes

like

#15

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity

1312 likes

like

#16

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts

4135 likes

like

#17

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

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47039 likes

like

#18

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom

11151 likes

like

#19

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta

tags: rain-rapa-nui

594 likes

like

#20

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

42711 likes

like

#21

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

22578 likes

like

#22

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11237 likes

like

#23

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls

8809 likes

like

#24

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

7854 likes

like

#25

“When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.”
― Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

tags: book, dark-side, die, end, finish, first, humor, know, last-page, read

384 likes

like

#26

“What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: coffee, soul

2982 likes

like

#27

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems

2006 likes

like

#28

“I am the drop that contains the ocean”
― Yunus Emre

42 likes

like

#29

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone

25347 likes

like

#30

“Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle

Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai.”
― allama iqbal

278 likes

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Ayaz’s Quotes

god
world
attributed-no-source
human-nature
humor
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
books
enlightenment
forgiveness
inspirational-quotes
knowledge
letting-go
existence
abyss
cliff
desire
fear
jumping
art
artists
creativity
surrealism
writers
writing
qotd
exercise
laziness
misattributed-to-hutchins
just-litsen
sarah-dessen
time
healing
pain
remembrance
scars
double-standards
ethics
governments
irony
killing
law
mankind
morality
murder
nationalism
nations
war
quotes-to-live-by
innocence
libraries
reading
sexuality
virginity
feelings
thoughts
contentment
friends
friendship
life
happiness
timelessness
wisdom
rain-rapa-nui
hope
inspirational
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
past
present
widely-misattributed
anything-can-be
impossible
musn-t
possibilities
shouldn-t
won-t
dreams
inspiration
feathers
souls
corruption
dark-side
fighting
monsters
soul
book
die
end
finish
first
know
last-page
read
coffee
misattributed-groucho-marx
politics
problems
death
dumbledore
harry
philosophers-stone
ron
sorcerers-stone