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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
If you want peace, work for justice.
Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
When the Kundalini rises, automatically you develop your own balances and that balanced life manifests outside. Now this ecological problem can be solved as soon as human beings get transformed and develop their balances. Because we are imbalanced, that's why the nature has gone into imbalance.
One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.
Kindness is more persuasive than force.
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.
If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.
Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.
We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!
I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.
He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Look twice before you leap.
Conventionality is not morality.
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.
I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.
Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.
Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.
Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
