"Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya."

-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Prayer Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Remembrance Quotes

“I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.”
“Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.”
“I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.”
“Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.”

Source : "'Large White House Speaking' by Mark Irwin" reviewed by Alexis Orgera, therumpus.net. April 23, 2014.
“Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.”
“The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.”

Source : "Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations" by Hugh Percy Jones, (p. 140), 1908.
“I donâ€™t know how youâ€™ve managed a tan,â€ Daydra said, â€œbut youâ€™ll have to keep it up, and talk like a pirate. If you want to work for Momma K, youâ€™re going to be the Sethi pirate girl. You have a husband or a lover?â€ Kaldrosa hesitated. â€œHusband,â€ she admitted. â€œThe last beating nearly killed him.â€ â€œIf you do this, youâ€™ll never get him back. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but heâ€™ll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.â€ â€œItâ€™s worth it,â€ Kaldrosa said. â€œTo save his life, itâ€™s worth it.”
“Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.”

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