Sulaimaniya Quotes

#1. I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Lynsey Addario

#2. You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Romola Garai

#3. Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.

Thomas Merton

#4. I believe in myself, and I've always had people behind me who believed in me. With that, you can do anything.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#5. Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#6. Don't strive for love, be it.

Hugh Prather

#7. There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#8. I'm convinced that everything I do will have a better outcome than the person who failed at it before me, because it's the only reality I choose to accept.

Crystal Woods

#9. You don't own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

Yannis Philippakis

#11. Mr. Sand, do you think it's possible to fall in love in the space of a single day?"
He smiled. "I wouldn't know. I only fall in love at night. Never lasts beyond breakfast, though.

Tessa Dare

#12. I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

Benjamin Percy

#13. All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...

John Julius Norwich

#14. When I was young I used to listen to everything.

Herbie Hancock

#15. Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

Charles Hugh Smith

#16. My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Mark Twain