Mahbod Seraji Quotes
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It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!
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Loving is a laborious and complex business.
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Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.
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Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.
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Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.
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Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.
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This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.
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I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.
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People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies, you know. They’re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.
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