Top 80 Vera Nazarian Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Don’t be afraid of the dark. Shine!”

— Vera Nazarian

53. “The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.”

— Vera Nazarian

54. “It’s easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.”

— Vera Nazarian

55. “Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to “season” people.”

— Vera Nazarian

56. “Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.”

— Vera Nazarian

57. “It is interesting that we call something good a “dream,” but being called a “dreamer” is somewhat of a putdown. Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world. If you are a secret dreamer, it’s your time to announce yourself.”

— Vera Nazarian

58. “In the desert, the only god is a well.”

— Vera Nazarian

59. “When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it – delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.”

— Vera Nazarian

60. “Stick around long enough to be someone’s friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.”

— Vera Nazarian

61. “The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.”

— Vera Nazarian

62. “Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now?”

— Vera Nazarian

63. “Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you’ve eaten your fill, and it’s time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.”

— Vera Nazarian

64. “What is blood but the wine of life?”

— Vera Nazarian

65. “Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”

— Vera Nazarian

66. “Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”

— Vera Nazarian

67. “A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?”

— Vera Nazarian

68. “Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”

— Vera Nazarian

69. “Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?”

— Vera Nazarian

70. “In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.”

— Vera Nazarian

71. “Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.”

— Vera Nazarian

72. “Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.”

— Vera Nazarian

73. “The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.”

— Vera Nazarian

74. “Every story needs to be worth telling.”

— Vera Nazarian

75. “There is only Love – and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.”

— Vera Nazarian

76. “I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.”

— Vera Nazarian

77. “One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.”

— Vera Nazarian

78. “For as long as there’s anyone to ask ‘Why?’ the answer will always be, ‘Why not?”

— Vera Nazarian

79. “I rise back up to the surface with a kind of solemn quiet peace that comes when you know it’s all over.”

— Vera Nazarian

80. “The dreaded November 18, 2048, at around 2:47 PM Eastern Time, plus or minus a few minutes, is when we go Boom.”

— Vera Nazarian

81. “Thing is,” Grial said in a conspiratorial voice, “let me tell you a little secret, girlie. That road- those roads, all roads and paths in fact- they never end. You might think they do. You might think they just narrow and fade and disappear in the hoary depths of the forest? Not so, not at all! They merely go into hiding, and you just have to search a bit harder to see them.”

— Vera Nazarian

82. “Since when do you check out other girls, girlfriend?” Dawn shrugs. There’s a little shy smile on her face. “Since always.” Laronda gives a loud snort-laugh and puts her hand to her mouth. “Wait, are you –.”

— Vera Nazarian

83. “Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!”

— Vera Nazarian

84. “Know, child, that the One God – He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest Act of all, for it is the Word. And this is precisely why He has made an infinity of lesser gods, creating them in His own image, so that we can do the lesser things on His behalf. We are His hands and arms and feet and mouths. We are His answers to your prayers, enacted along the great Framework of Being.”

— Vera Nazarian

85. “In the absence of Death, In the presence of Death, Only one thing remains, It is Love.”

— Vera Nazarian

86. “In any case, age is nothing more than the acquisition of Temporal Perspective! Oh, and rheumatism too, I must add.”

— Vera Nazarian

87. “Then you already know what it’s like to think in a different way about the same thing. Because that’s all a new language is – a slightly different way of thinking and looking at the same world. It’s like putting on multi-colored sunglasses. It enriches your thought processes and blows up your imagination like a balloon. And it gives you the mysterious power to express yourself to others who normally might not be able to understand you.”

— Vera Nazarian

88. “You can lose your freedom, your health, your honor, everything you love and care about. And yet, if you still have your purpose, you have lost nothing.”

— Vera Nazarian