"En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning."

-- Philippa Gregory

#Ends Quotes #Fins Quotes #Commencement Quotes

“The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)”
“The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
“For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.”
“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”
“ChÃ¢teau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”
“Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.”
“When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.”

Source : "Farrell: Channeling Everett Dirksen" by Vince Farrell, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2009.
“Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.77, Macmillan

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