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

• 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

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

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Heart

• One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small 'under-five' role I did on 'The Young and the Restless.' I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.

  

  Emayatzy Corinealdi
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Small

• I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • People
  • Guy
  • Party

• True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Heart
  • True
  • Faith

• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

  

  Lisa See
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • She

• It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Heart
  • Cold
  • Ecstasy

• I really want to look at the video tape under better circumstances so I can get a better look at, ... I'm sure I'll be able to do some good with it.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • Good
  • Sure
  • Video

• I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

  

  Matthew Modine

• 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