"Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Atrocities Quotes #Silent Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable. The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.”
“He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.”
“The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.”

Source : Derek Jeter (2010). “The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.4, Broadway Books
“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.643, Simon and Schuster
“Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman.”
“I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.”
“I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.”
“Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I donâ€™t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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