Top 94 Vera Nazarian Quotes
#1. A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
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#2. Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
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#3. Sometimes," Father Dibue said, "though everything is in the Lord's Hands, undoubtedly, there's the urgent need to administer the Holy Sacrament of the Last Rites. Otherwise, the humble servant of the Lord lingers, such as now, waiting for grace, for absolution.
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#4. A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.
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#5. When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
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#6. A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.
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#7. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
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#8. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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#9. A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.
A foolish sage is one who forgets this.
Remember, or come full circle.
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#10. Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
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#11. Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.
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#12. In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
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#13. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
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#14. A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
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#16. Don't look for a soul mate.
Make one
out of the complex fabric of the human being already with you.
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.
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#17. Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.
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#18. Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."
That's how some days feel - when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.
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#19. If Music is a Place
then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
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#20. I am happy.
I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.
I am happy.
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#21. When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it
delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.
It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.
And sometimes it is enough.
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#22. Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.
We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.
It is laughter.
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#23. Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.
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#24. The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
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#25. Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale ... at the moment.
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#26. Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
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#27. It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.
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#28. Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.
If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.
Then, pounce.
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#30. In any case, age is nothing more than the acquisition of Temporal Perspective! Oh, and rheumatism too, I must add.
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#31. Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
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#32. Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things.
Love is the same way.
Use it to "season" people.
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#33. I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire ... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
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#34. Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.
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#35. Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.
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#36. Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
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#37. The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
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#38. Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours.
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#39. I'll tell you a secret.
Old storytellers never die.
They disappear into their own story.
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#40. The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
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#42. A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
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#43. Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
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#44. Love
not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.
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#45. The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place.
Or, at least not yet again.
As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.
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#46. Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.
Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.
But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.
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#47. There is only Love
and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
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#48. Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!
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#49. The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God ... or an artist and a writer.
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#50. The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale ...
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#51. Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
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#52. A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.
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#53. The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.
The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.
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#54. Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all ...
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#55. Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?
Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.
There you go . . . That was easy!
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#56. Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence
a surprise.
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#57. Most of us have nicknames - annoying, endearing, embarrassing.
But what about your true name?
It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.
Ever wonder why?
Your true name has the secret power to call you.
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#58. Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time
'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!
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#59. If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
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#60. Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
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#61. For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?
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#62. Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey - or anyone else for that matter - is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.
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#63. The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
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#65. Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.
At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
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#66. To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
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#67. When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
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#68. In the absence of Death, In the presence of Death, Only one thing remains, It is Love.
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#69. Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
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#70. Hope is the last thing that dies.
Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.
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#71. Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
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#72. There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act.
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#73. Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
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#74. The Empress said, her own breath coming in gasps, lips against her daughter's cold forehead and soft hair - her hair at least was still the same, soft, delicate, sweet cobwebs. . . .
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#75. Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror
its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.
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#76. Fear is a cold bastard. The only way to overcome it is to act - to take the first step and just move forward.
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#77. One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.
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#78. Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
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#79. Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
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#80. But her soft lips were upon his, drinking his living breath, and he was now gasping in divine madness, pressing his mouth over hers like a drowning man, breathing through her. . . . "That
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#81. Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.
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#82. Luck is not as random as you think.
Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
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#83. Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!
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#84. In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
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#85. Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of a certain vice known as silliness.
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#86. Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
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#87. The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
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#88. It started to rain overhead, big sloppy droplets, but only in their immediate vicinity of about five feet. However, this being England, no one was particularly flummoxed even by such a particularly localized, extraordinarily specific example of maudlin weather.
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#89. A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
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#90. Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.
Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.
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#91. Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?
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#92. It is interesting that we call something good a "dream," but being called a "dreamer" is somewhat of a putdown.
Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.
If you are a secret dreamer, it's your time to announce yourself.
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#93. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
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#94. Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
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