The Way It Is Quotes

“The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.”
― D.M. Timney

“Allow what is to be.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“Isn't it amazing, how the opposite of childishness is childlikeness?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“On and on he wandered, and came out upon the sea-shore, on the barren rocks where the fierce light struck down, and the water moaned its low, perpetual wail of unrest. "Ah!" he said; "the sea will be more merciful; it, too, is wearied unto death and cannot sleep."

Then Arthur rose up from the deep, and cried aloud:

"This sea is mine!”
― Ethel Lilian Voynich, The gadfly

“Raise your sons to be
better humans, before you tell your
daughters
to cover up.”
― Shirani Rajapakse, The Way It Is

“Above all, the path of happiness embodies two qualities: success and gratitude. Success in the simple sense of striving for something and achieving it, and gratitude for being thankful for that which we have achieved. In simple words, happiness comes from our ongoing success in, and gratefulness for, being who we truly are.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“All progress must, and can only be, based on truth: the way it is.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“An illusion is just another way of seeing reality.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“It's all on the wheel.”
― R.E. Conary

“Absolute truth is the way it is.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“If somebody changes their tone about you it generally means that they have discovered or uncovered a truth about you that makes them not want to deal with you.”
― Germany Kent

“You will never reach household name status without having the right people in your circle. Your success will depend on who is willing to help you because you can not get there by yourself.”
― Germany Kent

“I sing out to the birds, but they have
flown away
and will not return
to recount stories of distant
places only they can visit.
No restrictions, no imprisonment.
They can move
beyond the walls of hate
while I remain
trapped
inside this cage.”
― Shirani Rajapakse, The Way It Is

“w
Waiting silently for the day
when everything changes and those
fortifications crumble, and you can stand up,
pull off the head scarf
let your hair dance in the sun
lift your face to the skies as your words fly
free like butterflies
on the breeze.”
― Shirani Rajapakse, The Way It Is

“Waiting silently for the day
when everything changes and those
fortifications crumble, and you can stand up,
pull off the head scarf
let your hair dance in the sun
lift your face to the skies as your words fly
free like butterflies
on the breeze.”
― Shirani Rajapakse, The Way It Is

“Your daughters are
receptors of knowledge, filled
with interesting ideas,
thoughts that could generate great
conversations, find solutions to the world’s
problems, if
you care to engage them in talk.
Don’t force them to be
something they are not, because your
sons have no control
over themselves.
Don’t shut them in,
imprison them
in shrouds, black cloaks
with only their eyes showing, covering
them up like corpses ready
to be thrown on
a communal burial heap.”
― Shirani Rajapakse, The Way It Is

“Democracy rules, you know. We have
freedom of expression, or so
we are told, yet our lips are sealed with
unspoken threats.”
― Shirani Rajapakse, The Way It Is

“He never
had a chance
even with his brown black
black brown arms
up in the air.
Unarmed.
Undone. Was it the color
or something else? We can only guess
why bullets fly from guns in white hands into
brown black,
black brown,
brown black brown
painting streets red.”
― Shirani Rajapakse, The Way It Is