Simayare Brown > Simayare's Quotes

“Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you, and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%.” This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia

“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.”
― Mark Twain

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
― Albert Camus

“The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.”
― Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq'ij of the Eagle Clan

“I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.”
― George Clooney

“Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)”
― Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?”
― John Wesley

“If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.”
― Steven Tyler

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”
― Basil the Great

“Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
― Johnny Depp

“... the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
― Terence McKenna

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
― William Penn

“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“إن السعادة تنتقل بالعدوى ..لا تنتظر عدوى أحد .. كن حاملاً لهذا الميكروب”
― أنيس منصور

“The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven’t done.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“You're such a book girl.”
― Mizuki Nomura

“Most Girls think that the every boy they don't like is not good but they didn't see the inner soul of them.”
― Udayveer Singh

“I do not know anything about ‘all the good guys are taken’ but I certainly know none of the beautiful girls are virgin.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Funny how the most beautiful people in the world aren't always the types to gloss the covers of magazines and yet most people spend their lives trying to turn heads.”
― Marilyn Grey, Heart on a Shoestring

“All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.”
― Damon Willis

“I waste more time trying to save time than I would if I were merely inefficient. One woman told me I make love like a fish in the desert, and I believed her, because she looked like a dry fish fucker to me.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale