Mahbod Seraji Quotes

#1. For Jesus, identity and acceptance come before achievement and ministry. This is joy no one can take away. You cannot earn acceptance.

John Ortberg

#2. This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.

Mahbod Seraji

#3. I ... confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.

Jorge Luis Borges

#4. 99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

James Hansen

#5. Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.

Mahbod Seraji

#6. The mental haze is like a tent that I crawl into to remain safe from what seems baffling and threatening to me. And that is how I get through the night.

Mahbod Seraji

#7. It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!

Mahbod Seraji

#8. When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

Mahbod Seraji

#10. Life is not fair all the time.

Mahbod Seraji

#11. Don't take life too serriously; you'll never get out of it alive!

Mahbod Seraji

#12. I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.

Mahbod Seraji

#13. If you can learn something from that person add him in your list if you can't ignore him.

Deyth Banger

#14. Loving is a laborious and complex business.

Mahbod Seraji

#15. Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.

Mahbod Seraji

#16. An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Quintilian

#17. Her favorite color is blue. She says that blue is associated with vastness; the skies are blue, the oceans are blue.

Mahbod Seraji

#18. When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Jacob Zuma

#19. Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

Christopher Paolini

#20. Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

Mahbod Seraji

#21. People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren't just fantasies, you know. They're so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.

Mahbod Seraji

#22. [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

Gustave Flaubert