Mahbod Seraji famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Caring #Thinking #Feelings
Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Life #Cat #Clouds
Loving is a laborious and complex business.
-- Mahbod Seraji
People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories arenâ€™t just fantasies, you know. Theyâ€™re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Book #Writing #People
This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Drama #Thinking #Different
Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Heart #Thinking #Feelings
Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Thinking #Sometimes #Easier
It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Government #Might #Circumstances
I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.
-- Mahbod Seraji

#Character #Together #Vignettes

It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.
Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?
Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
Hale, stop it.â€ Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. â€œYou are many things, but stupid isn't one of them.â€ â€œI'm too close.â€ â€œYou don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off.â€ â€œIt makes me a bad thief.â€ â€œIt makes you a good person.
How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

Mahbod Seraji famous quotes

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