Quotes by Iranian Authors

The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience emanating from universal colours of humanity, but each person takes from the universal what is relevant to them and alters it by their own interpersonal experience.
Camila Batmanghelidjh
I don’t call it "Life Insurance," I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love.
Farshad Asl
Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women
Reza Aslan
Someone is closing deals today, regardless of the weather, economy, politics, or any other excuses. Get out there and add value to people's lives by helping them move forward toward their financial freedom, peace of mind, and legacy.
Farshad Asl
Closing the deal is not just selling, it is MOVING people from where they are to where they should be; helping them make the right choices and take action toward their financial freedom, peace of mind, and legacy.
Farshad Asl
You can’t manage time. You can only manage your life. You can’t strategically plan time, you can only plan your life.
Farshad Asl
A mother is an unrelenting source of love.
Farshad Asl
You don’t achieve success, you attract success.
Farshad Asl
Juices of fruits and vegetables are pure gifts from Mother Nature and the most natural way to heal your body and make yourself whole again.
Farnoosh Brock
Weight Loss Versus Health Gain:"Forget the idea of 'losing' anything. Let that happen organically. Instead, focus only on adding the healthy habit of juicing into your system. Think only about the healthy changes you are integrating into your body and not so much about taking anything away. Now, this is more empowering position in which you put yourself. You are in charge of the adding, but you have no control of the subtracting. Let the weight loss be a natural result of the changes that you make and think in terms of adding health into your system instead. Juicing is one such addition.
Farnoosh Brock
What makes you different us what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance.
Farshad Asl
What makes you different is what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance.
Farshad Asl
Selling is Serving: Serving people Asking questions Listening actively Engaging the client Supporting their decision
Farshad Asl
Archbishop: "God is with us!"William the Great : "Bishop, if God is with us, then he is not with them, congratulations!We are victorious!
Arash Pakravesh
New York loves expanse. It grows upward and spreads its tentacles outward, the island spilling into adjoining lands through its many bridges and tunnels. A person given to idleness, as Parvis has come to think of himself, must move about for the sake of moving, if only to fit into the general scheme of things - an electron obeying the current. Tantamount to movement, he has come to realize, is self-reliance, a fact reflected in the language: "Take care," a friend may say to another as the two part. In his old life the same two friends would have said to one another, khodahfez - "may God protect you.
Dalia Sofer
Entrepreneurs don't just like to win, they live to win. Winning is not just their habit but also their lifestyle.
Farshad Asl
In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.
Daniel Nayeri
. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.
Sarvenaz Tash
O, you the goldfish ofthe swamp of my blood.Let your drunkenness be pretty.You are drinking me.
Forough Farrokhzad
Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.
Farshad Asl
People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.
Donia Bijan
The familiar song of a night-singing nightingale rises from somewhere in the garden. A nightingale that in this season of cold should not be in the garden, a nightingale that in a thousand verses of Iranian poetry, in the hours of darkness, for the love of a red rose and in sorrow of its separation from it, has forever sung and will forever sing.
Shahriar Mandanipour
Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?
Marjane Satrapi
Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh
Anita Amirrezvani
But *why* do clean torture and democracy appear to go hand in hand? This is an important puzzle (though by no means the only one suggested by the data). My explanation for this pattern generally is this: Public monitoring leads institutions that favor painful coercion to use and combine clean torture techniques to evade detection, and, to the extent that public monitoring is not only greater in democracies, but that public monitoring of human rights is a core value in modern democracies, it is the case that where we find democracies torturing today we will also be more likely to find stealthy torture.
Darius M. Rejali
What do you want?I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.
Sara Farizan
I am a   m o r e  than  a  victor er.
Dariush Youkhaneh
It's life's failure and its deficiencies that make someone a daydreamer. I don't understand why prophets and philosophers didn't see the significance in that. I think imagination is at the heart of reality, or at least, is the immediate definition and interpretation of reality.
Shokoofeh Azar
Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.
Mahbod Seraji
Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
With a solid prospecting system you will find qualified people to present your products and services to; with a solid marketing system, buyers will find you in order to learn about your products and services, whilst during this process your brand is born.
Farshad Asl
Winning is not about a single game. It's about repeated performance over a long haul. Winners never give up, never accept defeat, and work as long and as hard as it takes to get the job done right. They say, "Don't tell me why I can't do it. Tell me how I can get it done" You have the winner's DNA...take massive action and never give up!
Farshad Asl
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
Marjane Satrapi
Calm down, Think different, Find your way ...
Arash Pakravesh
Surround yourself with everything and everyone that will help you feel your best, think your best, do your best, and be your best.
Farshad Asl
Your environment plays a key factor in living a fulfilled life. In order to bear fruit, gain fulfillment, and meet fruition, you must intentionally create an environment that will sustain you.
Farshad Asl
Create an environment to grow consistently and to influence everyone around you positively. Your future doesn’t have to equal your past. You are designed to achieve greatness, to be happy and to live the life you deserve. Start with setting a P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. Goal.™
Farshad Asl
I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.
Marjane Satrapi
A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.
Farshad Asl
In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up of organized matter; in comparison with catholicism, which saw him as the unwitting plaything of an imperious unseen power (the Divine Will); in comparison with dialectical materialism, which saw him as unwitting plaything of the deterministic evolution of the means of production- existentialism made man a god
Ali Shariati
If you want to criticize someone, do not compare him with an imaginary creature but yourself.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
Where people are not present, talking about them is either lie or ridiculous.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
At the end of the race nobody really cares about how you started, so stay laser focused and finish strong. Get ready to proclaim "I did it!
Farshad Asl
Does it go away?" she asks. "Missing each other?" I think about how much I missed Maman. I still do, though it isn´t as acute as it once was. "A little bit," I whisper."Enough so that life continues. In a year you won´t even think about me. " She turns around in my arms and looks up at me, tugging at a strand of my hair. "don´t say stupid things, Sahar. You´re smarter than that.
Sara Farizan
Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.
Daniel Nayeri
Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.
Daniel Nayeri
...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting." (MLK)"...If given a choice between violent resistance and passive acceptance, King and Gandhi both accepted violence..." "...like violence, it [non-violent resistance] was aggressive, but it was spiritually, bot physically, so." "...At the same time the mind and the emotions are active, actively trying to persuade the opponent to change his ways and convince him that he is mistaken and to lift him to a higher level of existence.
S. Nassir Ghaemi
King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...
S. Nassir Ghaemi
Your influence as a leader will increase when you empower others' strengths, which in return equips them to pursue their callings, not their shortcomings.
Farshad Asl
Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.
Violette Nakhjavani
The key to wisdom is doubt!
Marjane Satrapi
The goals directs you in a place that you never been before, Create one.
Dariush Youkhaneh
Good habits and intentional daily effort to turn excuses into solutions will help you become the person and entrepreneur that you want to be.
Farshad Asl
Entrepreneurship is an art, you do it because you love it.
Farshad Asl
Don’t ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.
Porochista Khakpour
Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.
Roxana Shirazi