Vera Nazarian

"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1) acceptance, 2) understanding, 3) appreciation. Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."

- Vera Nazarian

"I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy."

- Vera Nazarian

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

- Vera Nazarian

"The difference between real life and a story is that life has _significance_, while a story must have _meaning_. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end."

- Vera Nazarian

"Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day."

- Vera Nazarian

"A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song."

- Vera Nazarian

"The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale."

- Vera Nazarian

"If Music is a Place – then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple."

- Vera Nazarian

"Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age."

- Vera Nazarian

"If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home."

- Vera Nazarian

"Sometimes reaching out and taking one’s hand is the beginning of a journey."

- Vera Nazarian

"Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours."

- Vera Nazarian

"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."

- Vera Nazarian

""Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.""

- Vera Nazarian

"Never look directly at the sun, instead look at the sunflower."

- Vera Nazarian

"Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist." In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up! But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability... A day of unlocked potential. Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you? Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!"

- Vera Nazarian

"The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies."

- Vera Nazarian

"Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower."

- Vera Nazarian

"The sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches."

- Vera Nazarian

"Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot."

- Vera Nazarian