"Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego."

-- Rumi

#Ego Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Nafs Quotes

“Many dedicated endurance athletes donâ€™t need to be told what to do â€“ they need to be told what not to do.”

Source : Scott Tinley (1994). “Scott Tinley's Winning Guide to Sports Endurance: How to Maximize Speed, Strength & Stamina”
“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.”
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.”
“The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.”
“We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we canâ€™t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldnâ€™t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldnâ€™t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldnâ€™t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who givesâ€”even when He takes.”
“I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.”
“All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.”
“People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.”

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