Samiyam quotes

“When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.”
-- Samiyam

#Confused Quotes #Mean Quotes #Track Quotes

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

“For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.”

“Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.”

“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

“No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.”

“I like the marathon because it's one race where you can find out who's really the toughest. On the track, sometimes a guy can just pull away, and you want to stay with him but you don't have the leg speed. The marathon is slow enough that anyone can stay with you if he wants, if he has the will. The marathon is ultimately a test of will.”

“I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.”

“At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.”

Source : "The Impossible Conundrum" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.