32 Quotes & Sayings By Soroosh Shahrivar

Soroosh Shahrivar is a writer whose work has been published in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, the Huffington Post online, Mental Health America, USA Today's "Best of Us" pages, Business Week, The Chicago Tribune, Good Housekeeping magazine and more. He holds a degree in humanities from UCLA and has worked as a literary agent.

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Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness Soroosh Shahrivar
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The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function Soroosh Shahrivar
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You are most beautiful in your purest form. You are a manifestation of God himself. Open your eyes and let the light flow right through to your core. All it takes is for you to notice a flicker of leaves, a momentary glance from a loved one, or for a wave to hit your toes and freeze you in that timeless place where you know with every cell in your body that God, indeed is real. Soroosh Shahrivar
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He was everyone and every living creature in one ecstatic motion. Soroosh Shahrivar
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He was going to embrace love every day. He would appreciate the world every hour. And he will believe in God every second Soroosh Shahrivar
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The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself. Soroosh Shahrivar
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Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what’s below it Soroosh Shahrivar
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Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous Soroosh Shahrivar
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Mourning was really for the living. Soroosh Shahrivar
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His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins. Soroosh Shahrivar
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The day you are born is the day you start dying Soroosh Shahrivar
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He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love. Soroosh Shahrivar
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Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks Soroosh Shahrivar
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That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman. Soroosh Shahrivar
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The work of fate is a mystery Soroosh Shahrivar
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There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned. Soroosh Shahrivar
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Not long ago, man grew a sense of conscience. He defined himself by what he is, what he thinks, and, more importantly, what he feels–failing to realize that all come from One single source. All of man’s qualities come from One divine being. And that One being has bestowed nature’s hand with the ability to balance itself. Where there is good, there is also evil. And where evil arises, so does good . Soroosh Shahrivar
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An evil brute grows strong and now is on the verge of crossing over from the island to the world you know. His name is Hubal, and his strength grows as your world’s lightness folds. Soroosh Shahrivar
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The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence Soroosh Shahrivar
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Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served. Soroosh Shahrivar
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Winning Expo 2020 marked the city’s coronation and the world could no longer deny Dubai its rightful status as one of the era’s more illustrious cities. The people who flocked there were looking for some sort of magic to occur in their lives, and life on the beach under these concrete gazebos offered many blessings. Some found riches. Some found religion. Some found love. And some, most importantly of all, found themselves. Soroosh Shahrivar
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Pilgrims from all over the world were making their way to the place deemed the pearl of the Middle East. The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis. Its buildings, like towering pillars, tested the sky’s limit. The evenly paved roads belched with the smell of new tarmac, as if a million masons woke up every morning and by hand lay asphalt one grain at a time. People of all colors, ethnicities, creed and social statuses came bearing money, knowledge or experience in order to build their legacies in the new kingdom, sprouting out of the desert. Dubai had arrived. Soroosh Shahrivar
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Luck is the devil with a halo Soroosh Shahrivar
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People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories. Soroosh Shahrivar
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Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity Soroosh Shahrivar
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The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes Soroosh Shahrivar
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In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness Soroosh Shahrivar
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He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did Soroosh Shahrivar
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He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun Soroosh Shahrivar
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Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today. Soroosh Shahrivar
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And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant. Soroosh Shahrivar