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

• When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Explore

• 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

• I feel good, like it's party time, don't you know And it blew my mind when she smiled and said hello But it broke my heart when she told me it's time to go

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• 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

• Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• ..emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours – alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes..

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Waiting

• It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Long
  • Mistake

• Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Me
  • Rap

• 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