Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

• Heart
• Disappointment
• Surrender
• Fallen In Love
• Shape Of My Life

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Man

• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Time
  • World
  • Heart

• As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Nature

• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• I set a course just east of LyraAnd northwest of PegasusFlew into the light of DenebSailed across the Milky WayOn my ship, the 'Rocinante'Wheeling through the galaxiesHeaded for the heart of CygnusHeadlong into mystery - Cygnus X-1, Book One; The Voyage (1977)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Light

• Laws assure animals of protection – formally, officially, set down in black and white. But in the long run, the best protection is the human heart.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Black

• Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Heart

• Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

  

  Chanakya
  • Mind
  • Heart

• You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Heart
  • May
  • Broken

• Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

  

  James Black
  • Work
  • Heart

• I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Girl

• It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Heart
  • Success

• There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

  

  Keith Miller
  • People
  • Heart
  • America

• Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Heart

• And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Found
  • Prison
  • Turns

• Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • I Believe
  • Disadvantage
  • God Exists

• Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America

• So to have peace, the best way to put your mind right is to think of good things. Think of the flowers, not of the thorns. What good things others have done to you, what good things there are, what are the beautiful moments you have had, and count your blessings . Count your blessings, otherwise you cannot create peace.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Heart
  • Disappointment
  • Surrender