Masiela Lusha Quotes

In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

We fall in love forever many times, and many times we die.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

We're renting the space that we call Earth, so we may as well just go for it.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever

I always have to do more to contribute to society.

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

My mom makes this amazing little snack that, to this day, I still think about. It's pita bread wrapped with melted butter, feta cheese, and cucumbers. That, to me, is still heaven. It's my childhood.

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.