Yalsa Book Quotes

#1. Count the steps
and keep the number.
Pick the white pebbles
and the funny strange leaves.
Mark the curves
and cliffs around
for you may need
to come home again.

Tenzin Tsundue

#2. It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles De Gaulle

#3. Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home ... and eating it.

Rene Redzepi

#4. Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. With Jehovah- Jireh, life is a joyful journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Charlie Haden

#7. Above all, let us pray for our children.

Rick Perry

#8. The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Nelson Mandela

#9. I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.

Jonathan Franzen

#10. Just know this isn't going to be easy. I'm not always going to agree with whatever you want." "If I wanted agreeable, I'd get a pet.

Milly Taiden

#11. Love is actually overrated except when you are in love

Subhasis Das

#12. On a dog sled team, unless you're the lead dog the view never changes.

Dominique Sutton