Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away. Vera Nazarian More Quotes by Vera Nazarian More Quotes From Vera Nazarian The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale. Vera Nazarian childhood holiday christmas In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart. Vera Nazarian honesty dark heart The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. Vera Nazarian heart sometimes lying 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 land home travel 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 jigsaw-puzzles tests limits 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 helping remember people Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. Vera Nazarian true-friend essence long Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete. Vera Nazarian passion opposites two Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow. Vera Nazarian growth self mean Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire. Vera Nazarian soulmate limits desire 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 knowing motivational thinking When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades. Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering. But the ones that are . . . happen again. So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself. Vera Nazarian dream opportunity memories Our world is so bursting-full of natural wonder that we are all experiencing a sensory overload. We are no longer perceiving all of Ú the details, just the ones that immediately interest us. Vera Nazarian natural-wonders details our-world 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 stars opposites success The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. Vera Nazarian acting memories two A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts. Vera Nazarian existential common ordinary Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry. Vera Nazarian dessert eating people Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them. Vera Nazarian nice matter giving What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We put on formal wear and suddenly we become extraordinary. On the days when you feel low and invisible, why not try this on for size: imagine you are wearing a fantastic tailored tuxedo or a stunning formal gown. And then proceed with your day. Vera Nazarian black trying beautiful It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And most of all, there is truth, ordinary and simple, just sitting there to be plucked, if only we get our lazy rear ends off the pillow of complacency. But first, we need to open our eyes to this banal fact. And for that we need a periodic bit of shakeup in the form of an infusion of wonder - fantastic literature. Vera Nazarian eye simple justice
