Anam Cara Quotes

The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul. ~ John O'Donohue

It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, 'Being here is so much,' and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free. ~ John O'Donohue

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all. ~ Cara Santana

I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way. ~ Cara Delevingne

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that. ~ Cara Delevingne

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now." ~ Alessia Cara

A conscience is such a cursed nuisance, that's why I don't bother having one. ~ Cara Elliott

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life. ~ Cara Delevingne

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before. ~ Cara Castronuova

Paradise is not some kind of enchanted land filled with flowers and music. It is not some kind of spiritual Disneyland. Paradise is our primordial pure consciousness, which is free of all limitations but embodies the infinity of the divine. ~ Anam Thubten

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. ~ Cara Black

'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.' He said pretty like he meant something else. ~ Cara Hoffman

Her hands on the harmonium were delicate, square-tipped, her bitten-down nails paying homage to the seriousness of the task; her brows were knitted together in the service of the song, and in the end it was only to the music that she was bound. In singing she was, in only briefly, a supplicant, as though in the presence of a divinity that even she, devout non-believer, had to somehow acknowledge ~ Tahmima Anam

There it was, he realized, the barest bone of her, bright as the moon on an autumn night that was full of the smell of woodsmoke. ~ Cara Wall

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all. ~ Cara Lockwood

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, I'm not afraid to believe in you. ~ Cara Lockwood

She was floating in the midst of a black sea, in the darkest of nights, with no hope or care to see light again. She was a mere wave away from drowning in blackness. ~ Anam Iqbal

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy ... ' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate. ~ Alessia Cara

It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work. ~ Irene Cara

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions. ~ Niccolo Paganini

In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor. ~ Alessia Cara

His pale irises had grown as dark as his intentions, lids heavy. ~ Cara McKenna

I'm a selfish prick, and I want to be the greatest fuck of your life and ruin you for every man who comes after me. But I'm not a mind reader, so I need some help. ~ Cara McKenna

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program. ~ Irene Cara

Heaven dwells in hearts, Eliza, not in lands, as does hell – it dwells in hearts. ~ Cara Ruegg

Jeez, what did he think I was, a lust demon? I wanted Logan to show me how to use his sword, not show me how to use his man sword. ~ Cara Lynn Shultz

When I look back, my greatest accomplishment in high school has nothing to do with competition and winning. I learned to use my own judgement and not to follow others blindly. I learned to judge myself based on my own standards. I learned to find my own voice. I learned to speak my own truth. I have nothing to show for these achievements, no grades, no medals, trophies, or diploma. Yet these are the achievements that can't be taken away by loss, failure, or misunderstanding. ~ Cara Chow

Are you part of the BDSM scene or whatever?" Laurel asked.
He made an exasperated noise. "I can't stand that shit. They make everything so fucking complicated. You might as well be one of those Civil-fucking-War ... " He twirled his hand, searching for the word.
"Reenactors?"
He snapped his fingers at her. "Three points. ~ Cara McKenna

I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook. ~ Cara Buono

I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere. ~ Cara Delevingne

I'm Popeye the sailor man dum dum I live in a cara-van dum dum I op-en the door And fall-on the floor I'm Popeye the sailor man dum dum ~ Arundhati Roy

What I feel for you is so big, Cara. No more doubts." He tips my chin up to look me in the eye. "You're with me because there's nowhere else I want you to be. Got it?"
I offer him a small smile and nod. "Got it."
"Good." He lifts me and carries me toward the bedroom. "But just in case, I think I'll work on reminding you some more. ~ Kristen Proby

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something ... I don't know! ~ Cara Delevingne

I really need to get better at participating in my own fantasies. ~ Cara McKenna

A beautiful young clerk might flirt with him as he browsed, but she'd never see what I did. She'd see only his shiny shell, snapped shut to hide a jumble of secondhand parts, ticking not quite as they should, but ticking nonetheless. A bit rusty. A bit erratic, like my heartbeat in the moments before I press his buzzer. ~ Cara McKenna

I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table. ~ Cara Buono

But as I grew older I learned the difference between a parent's opinion and what was really right. ~ Cara Dee

We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa. ~ Irene Cara

My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone. ~ Cara Delevingne