Carol Matas Quotes

#1. Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all?
- Rivka

Carol Matas

#2. (S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop.
- Ruth

Carol Matas

#3. I fell in love with the thunder.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. Will you be all right? she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.

Carol Matas

#5. I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#6. Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

Nhat Hanh

#7. As for sex. Well, of course I could've had sex. Guys will have sex with a watermelon if they're desperate enough. Lots of girls try to prove their love by having sex. It only proves they're having sex.

Carol Matas

#8. He was supposed to be my enemy. He was probably insane. And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask of a friend?

Stephenie Meyer

#9. Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#10. Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

Warren Farrell

#11. I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#12. You talk to people who serve you the food the same way you talk to the people you eat the food with. You talk to people who work for you the same way you talk to the people you work for. It's a one-size-fits-all proposition.

Claudia Shear

#13. I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one.
- Ruth

Carol Matas

#14. (B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you?
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#15. It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

Pat Summitt

#16. The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

Thomas Carlyle

#17. I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

Iris Murdoch