Zawadi Books Quotes

#1. Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.

Barbara Fredrickson

#2. It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

Elisabeth Elliot

#3. Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

Jack London

#4. If you live with someone all your life, you can tell when you are annoying them. Their face just shuts down. Their words sound almost mechanical, because they are reining in all the other emotions.

David Levithan

#5. Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Beth Hoffman

#7. Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30

Paulo Coelho

#8. There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is 'Gnan', (true) Knowledge.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else ...

Jodi Picoult

#10. I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

Darcy Tucker

#11. My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

Mark Foley