1,449 Quotes About Memoir

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

Prestasi dan kerja keras itu seperti sepasang sepatu, saling berdampingan. Oleh sebab itu, aku tak mudah menyerah. Khawatir menyesal di hari tua.

Hari ini aku giat belajar, bukan karena aku tak menikmati masa muda, tapi aku paham bahwa belajar di masa tua bagaikan mengukir di atas air.

Jika berprestasi dan berkarya itu kewajiban, mengapa harus ragu untuk melangkah? Kita tak pernah tahu seberapa jauh kita melangkah hingga kita mencobanya, bukan?

Sharing my love of stories has led me to find more acceptance and insight than any classroom learning I ever received, but without those technical skills, I would not have been able to do it all.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Whenever you are faced with darkness… Search for your inner light.”—Jeneen Miller, AuthorPieces of Victory

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.

I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.