Fave Quotes

Knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity. [Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali]
Love your friend with some reserve, for he might become inimical to you someday. Despise your enemy with some reserve, For he might become your friend someday. [Ali radi Allah anhu]

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. [Kahlil Gibran]

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stiffled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. [Mohandas K. Gandhi]

I take pride in my accomplishments and not in those of my ancestors. [Arabic proverb]

Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That’s a good religion. [Malcolm X]

Don’t love till someone gives up what they like for you..
Don’t trust till someone earns it..
Don’t think them to be loyal till they are content with only you..
All the rest is just a game…

We are not at the point where we stand but at the point where we are destined to go. [Rumi]

“Value five things before five, youth before old age, health before sickness, wealth before poverty, leisure before preoccupation, and life before death.” [Tirmidhi]

Anger that has no limit, causes terror. Kindness that is inappropriate, does away with respect. So do not be so severe with others, as to terrify them; and do not be so lenient with others, as to make them take advantage of you. [Sadi (Muslim Theologian)]
Its not your aptitude but your attitude that determines your altitude.

Any problem that can be solved by throwing money at it is not a real problem.

Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime, we’ll take the best, forget the rest, and someday we’ll find these are the best of times

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. [Anais Nin]

If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. [Margaret Thatcher]

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. [Audrey Hepburn]

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order;
to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life;
and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. [Confucius]

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. [John F. Kennedy]

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. [James Baldwin]

“The tongue of the wise man is behind his heart and the heart of a fool is behind his tongue.” [Ali (RA)]

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, “By the One in Whose Hand my soul is, were you not to commit sins, Allah would replace you with a people who would commit sins and then seek forgiveness from Allah; and Allah would forgive them”. [Muslim]

“But indeed if any show patience and forgive, that would truly be an exercise of courageous will and resolution in the conduct of affairs.” [Qur’an, 42:43]