There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
- Paulo Coelho
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
- Albert Einstein
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
- Ibn Taymiyyah
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
- Laozi
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
- John C. Maxwell
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
- Hafez
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You Presume you are a small entity, But within you is enfolded the entire universe. You are indeed the evident book, By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest. Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself, What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
- Malcolm X
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
- Al-Ghazali
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.
- Al-Shafi‘i
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Aristotle
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
- Robert Baden-Powell
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.
- Omar Khayyam
Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and be happy today.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
- Ronald Reagan
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Spurgeon
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
- Helen Rowland
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
- Queen Elizabeth II
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
- Dick Gregory
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
- Khalil Gibran
To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Voltaire
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.
- Shams Tabrizi
Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
- Muhammad Iqbal
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- John Burroughs
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
- Ravi Zacharias
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
- Gene Wilder
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
