Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
Al-Shafi‘i
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
William Blake
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Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished.
[It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
Newton N. Minow
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Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?
William James
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When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.
Erich Schiffmann
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a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.
Cathleen Schine
