"If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire."

-- Ibn Ata Allah

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Despair Quotes

“If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.”

Source : "The Loom of Time: On the Recursive Nature of Reality". Book by Subhash Kak, 2016.
“I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.”
“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”
“Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.”

Source : Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster
“I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.”
“I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.”
“Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.”

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