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Famous Vera Nazarian Quotes

“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”

Vera Nazarian

“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.

Their language has been lost.

But not the gestures.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”

Vera Nazarian

“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.

Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation.

Suddenly, youyou are.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Vera Nazarian Quotes about love

“Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love seesthem to the secret inside.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: Salt of the Air

“Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things.

Love is the same way.

Use it to "season" people.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.”

Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian Quotes

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.

Likewise, she is never less.

Equality is a given.

A woman is human.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.

So does gossip.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: Dreams of the Compass Rose

“Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all…”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.

Giggles can spread from person to person.

So can blushing.

But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”

Vera Nazarian

“The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.

We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.

It is laughter.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.

Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.”

Vera Nazarian

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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