Maryam Saliu > Maryam's Quotes

“Do you doubt the love of God for you? And feel like His love is absent in
your life?
Knowing the quantum of love God has for us is essential to healthy living
as God’s love is fundamental to our identity. Although many people, most
especially religious men and women, believe that God loves them, they are
unable to reap the benefits of his love. It is not simply cool to say God loves
me but to know it, be rooted and grounded in it for it is by this that you will
be able to rise above any and every circumstance life may throw your way.”
― Maryam Monika Saliu, Resilience: Surviving a Life Saving Operation is a Silver Lining

“It was the day that I said, “do whatever it takes to
keep me alive.” With the nurse’s words changing
everything and giving me a fresh viewpoint, I felt
stronger. The fact that I was one of the very few people in the world to have survived was a wonder.”
― Maryam Monika Saliu, Resilience: Surviving a Life Saving Operation is a Silver Lining

“Many people believe that the most human response to adversity is
to try to avoid it, to maintain as much normalcy as
possible while bypassing misery. Regardless, the most straightforward method to reach our full potential is to live bravely and step outside of our comfort zones.”
― Maryam Monika Saliu, Resilience: Surviving a Life Saving Operation is a Silver Lining

“Love became my superpower; if you choose to
love, no matter what has been done to you, you will always win.”
― Maryam Monika Saliu, Resilience: Surviving a Life Saving Operation is a Silver Lining

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
― Paulo Coelho, Maktub

“Maktub" (It is written.)”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“Even sorrow has its silver lining, as the emotion that pours forth reminds us of our
capacity to love, and to be loved.”
― Rob Kozak, Finding Fatherhood

“Sometimes life events break your heart. Even as you grieve, allow light to seep through the cracks, uplift, and illuminate a healing. Baby turtles emerge from the cracking of shells; new life can burst forth. Clear away all broken belongings as a metaphorical pathway fresh, loving experiences in uncharted waters.”
― Laura Staley

“The same wind that blows down your house shakes berries from the bushes.”
― Marci Ridlon

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“All of the love you have given to the wrong people— it will find its way back to you.”
― Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

“I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.”
― Grace Paley, Just As I Thought

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“How they make you feel says a lot about them and nothing about you”
― Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

“Are there any rules
when it comes to love? There is just one: Let it change you. Let it leave you better
than you were before.”
― Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

“If the world does not understand the way you burn, do not hide yourself away. Instead, set it on fire. Show them what you can do with all of that hope inside of you.”
― Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars