Top 80 Vera Nazarian Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”

— Vera Nazarian

2. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”

— Vera Nazarian

3. “The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...”

— Vera Nazarian

4. “The world is shaped by two things – stories told and the memories they leave behind.”

— Vera Nazarian

5. “A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.”

— Vera Nazarian

6. “If Music is a Place – then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”

— Vera Nazarian

7. “To every rule there is an exception – and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don’t be the one!”

— Vera Nazarian

8. “Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.”

— Vera Nazarian

9. “A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.”

— Vera Nazarian

10. “Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...”

— Vera Nazarian

11. “Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.”

— Vera Nazarian

12. “Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey – or anyone else for that matter – is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.”

— Vera Nazarian

13. “Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”

— Vera Nazarian

14. “When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

— Vera Nazarian

15. “When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.”

— Vera Nazarian

16. “The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.”

— Vera Nazarian

17. “Respect the young and chastise your elders. It’s about time the world was set aright.”

— Vera Nazarian

18. “The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.”

— Vera Nazarian

19. “Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence – a surprise.”

— Vera Nazarian

20. “Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.”

— Vera Nazarian

21. “Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.”

— Vera Nazarian

22. “Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!”

— Vera Nazarian

23. “Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.”

— Vera Nazarian

24. “Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror – its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.”

— Vera Nazarian

25. “In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”

— Vera Nazarian

26. “I’ll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.”

— Vera Nazarian

27. “Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.”

— Vera Nazarian

28. “Love – not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.”

— Vera Nazarian

29. “Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.”

— Vera Nazarian

30. “Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”

— Vera Nazarian

31. “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.”

— Vera Nazarian

32. “Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”

— Vera Nazarian

33. “Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.”

— Vera Nazarian

34. “Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.”

— Vera Nazarian

36. “Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don’t limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”

— Vera Nazarian

37. “Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.”

— Vera Nazarian

38. “Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.”

— Vera Nazarian

39. “A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.”

— Vera Nazarian

40. “A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”

— Vera Nazarian

41. “Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.”

— Vera Nazarian

42. “The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.”

— Vera Nazarian

43. “One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power – to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom – all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.”

— Vera Nazarian

44. “A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”

— Vera Nazarian

45. “If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.”

— Vera Nazarian

46. “Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that’s where the point lies.”

— Vera Nazarian

47. “All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth – yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it’s best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.”

— Vera Nazarian

48. “Money is like fire. It is only good when there’s just the right amount of it, when it’s properly contained and under your control.”

— Vera Nazarian

49. “The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.”

— Vera Nazarian

50. “There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter – an act.”

— Vera Nazarian