Nafisa Haji Quotes

#1. As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Christopher Hart

#3. The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives for justice given the circumstances of the present. Otherwise, the law is merely something dead, a weapon in the hands of those with power. Against those with none.

Nafisa Haji

#4. I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

Mos Def

#5. We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident,

Catherynne M Valente

#6. When it comes to affairs of the heart, you need to look deeper than the plastic-coated shell

Daisy James

#7. Seeing an equal person as an inferior object is an act of violence

The Arbinger Institute

#8. To give voice to the questions
even in my own head
would have been to give them power, to confirm the presence of doubt, to risk eventual downfall.

Nafisa Haji

#9. It's very unbalanced actually, to be real.Everything's like deserted.

Ariana Grande

#10. You won't understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.

Nafisa Haji

#11. When someone stops saying hello, I don't see that there's any need to say good-bye.

Nafisa Haji

#12. I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Lotte Reiniger

#13. The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.

Nafisa Haji

#14. Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off
a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.

Nafisa Haji

#15. [...] the quiet break of soul that comes when you realize that what looked like a rainbow was actually only a trick of the light.

Jodi Picoult

#16. No story worth telling should ever be about blame or regret. What happened was what was meant to happen.

Nafisa Haji