The best Quotes by Afia Khalia

You don't know where you're going, unless you know where you come from.

I'm hoping that I can get more of my family to come and see so that they can start to put together the pieces of our life as a family.

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Timon: "You gotta put your past behind ya. Look kid, bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?"
Simba: "Right."
Timon: "Wrong!"

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck.

The past never stops, it reviews the present.

The past is always with us, Tyler. Now, you can try and run away but it's always there.

The past is a wave. Keeps returning.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

History's a rock. Can't swim if you're holding it.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The only time you should look back in life is to see how far you have come.

There's no need to change the past. Because of the past we are who we are now.

What if everything that came from the past were influenced by the future?

To live in the past is to die in the present.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

We can be only who we are; no more, no less.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

It's better to be hated for the person you are, than to be loved for the person you're not.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren't. Everybody has their own strengths and weknesses, and it is only when you accept everything you are - and aren't - that you will truly succeed.

Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

If you are lucky enough to be different, don't ever change!

Be yourself! Everyone else is already taken.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

It's f*cked up how people get judged for being real, and how people get loved for being fake.

Someone will always be prettier.
Someone will always be smarter.
Someone will always be younger.
But they will never be you.

Brian: "You're all individuals!"
People: "Yes, we're all individuals!"
Brian: "You're all different!"
People: "Yes, we are all different!"
Man: "I'm not."

It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.