"A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies."

-- Bernard Lewis

#Giving Quotes #Islam Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.”
“What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.”

Source : Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”
“Iâ€™m so lucky to be in the position to give. Itâ€™s really a gift to give.”
“No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.”
“Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.”
“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.”
“What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.”
“I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.”

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