"For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now."

-- Hamza Yusuf

#People Quotes #Young Quotes

“As an advocate for kids for over twenty years, I have watched things change since I was in school. Thankfully, this book made me face what I intuitively knew was real but pretended wasn't: The youth of our culture have been deeply wounded by our collective neglect and adult-driven self-focus. Young people need adults to understand what they are going through and people to care about them without a personal agenda. This book was very helpful to me, and my attitude toward teens will never be the same.”
“It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.”
“The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.”
“The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.”
“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”
“I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.”
“Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”

Source : Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin
“Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.”

Source : Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, Hachette UK

You may also like:

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Writer
Bilal Philips
Teacher
Cat Stevens
Singer-songwriter
Habib Ali al-Jifri
Islamic scholar
Nouman Ali Khan
Instructor
Suhaib Webb
Imam
Tariq Ramadan
Writer
Timothy Winter
Writer
Zakir Naik
Medical Doctor