Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.
– Yann Martel
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- Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover. – Kamand Kojouri
- Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious – Yann Martel
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- I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. – Yann Martel
- I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. – Yann Martel
- When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. – Yann Martel
- There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. – Yann Martel
- When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. – Yann Martel
- I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools. – Yann Martel
- Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. – Yann Martel
- To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken. – Yann Martel
- We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more–there is no greater relationship. – Yann Martel
- Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. – Yann Martel
- My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. – Yann Martel
- The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. – Yann Martel
- My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
- The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. – Yann Martel
- Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. – Yann Martel
- As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. – Yann Martel
- The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. – Yann Martel
- In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. – Yann Martel
- All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
- All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
- I’m a believer, I believe in God, I believe in truth, I believe in righteousness. – Nurudeen Ushawu
- Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist. – Abhijit Naskar
- I’m a believer. I believe in the goodness of life. I believe in the brotherhood of mankind. I believe in humanity. – Nurudeen Ushawu
- Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does. – Yann W Tanoe
- Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover. – Debasish Mridha
- It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist. – Peter Atkins
- It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover. – Emma Frances Dawson
- Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick -¦ or the side ????. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Lover of books, lover of knowledge. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer’s dream.) – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- deep inside the eyes of a true lover lies the heart of a true lover. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- If you ask God for love,He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience,He may give you someone to bear. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
- What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God? – Kevin Michel