Shahrnush Parsipur quotes

“On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.”
-- Shahrnush Parsipur

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“I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature.”
-- Shahrnush Parsipur

Source : Source: www.parsarts.com

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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.”

“Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”

“Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.”

Source : Cathy Hopkins (2009). “Friend Me: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras; Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses; Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.