"Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights."

-- Hafez Ibrahim

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“The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.”
“He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.”
“Let not a man's self be to him all in all.”
“As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?”
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”
“To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.”
“One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.”

Source : Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”
“There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.”

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