Top 32 Vaddey Ratner Quotes
#1. Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.
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#2. If you pay close enough attention, Raami, you'll realize that a single leaf can contain myriad lives imitating our own, and you'll know that there are always others traveling this world with you.
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#3. No matter what ugliness and destruction you may witness around you, I want you always to believe that the tiniest glimpse of beauty here and there is a reflection of the gods' abode.
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#4. I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering
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#5. The problem with being seven is that you're aware of so much and yet you understand so little
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#7. There exists such a place, such sacred space. You have only to envision it, to dare to dream it. It is within you, within all of us.
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#8. Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not only is a sequence of audible notes but encompasses the spaces and pauses in between. When listening to music, you must learns to take in even the atmosphere of an echo.
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#9. You can dig a hole in my heart and bury all your sadness. I'll be your grave.
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#10. It's a gift to be able to imagine heaven, and a rebirth to actually glimpse it.
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#11. Once I believed I would live forever. Death never entered my mind. Then one day, death surprised me!
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#12. Lightning struck, the sky roared, and the night cried a giant's tears, thunderous and inconsolable.
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#13. Life is like that." papa turned once again to the Mekong. "Everything is connected, and sometimes we, like little fishes, are awept up in these big and powerful currents. Carried far from home ...
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#14. Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good.
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#16. Animals are not like people. If you leave them alone, they won't hurt you. But people will, even if you've done no wrong.
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#17. I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it
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#19. Always somewhere there was light, and, though transient, it flashed all the more brilliantly because of the surrounding dark.
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#20. If the river brought us here," I ventured tentatively, "then when it reverses course, it'll carry us back.
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#21. Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived.
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#22. I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.
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#24. Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.
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#25. For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, will rise above chaos and destruction, as wings in flight
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#26. Words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.
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#27. Poetry is like ... first all you have is ...
A line weaving through your mind
Like the tail of a child's kite
Unfettered by reason or rhyme.
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#28. Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation
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#29. When you love a flower", he said, as if wishing to explain his altered experience, "and suddenly she is gone, everything vanishes with her. I lived because she lived. Now she is gone. Without her, I am nothing.
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#30. It was enough that I knew I was not alone, that, at the very least, standing here beside me was this one person, who, unbeknownst to me till now, had all along been journeying this same journey with me, only from the opposite direction.
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#31. Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. This way you'll have time to think if you ought to say the things you want to say.
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#32. Your grief will fade ... It's hard to believe this now, my friend ... but it will wither and, like a flower, leave behind always a seed of possibility.
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