"If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him!"

-- Ibn Ata Allah

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Authority. The antithesis of science.”

Source : Stephen Baxter (2012). “Moonseed”, p.50, HarperCollins UK
“Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.”
“If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.”
“What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.”
“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.”
“It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?”
“Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.”
“No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.”

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