Age Quotes - Page 15

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.