"If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!"

--

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.28, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

#Wise Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Men Quotes

“I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.”
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
“How does Rudolph know when Christmas is coming? He looks at his calen-deer!”
“Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.”
“Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.”

Source : Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA
“Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!”

Source : "Andrew Garfield And Emma Stone Interview" by Susan Hornik, www.askmen.com.
“God has no religion.”
“Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didnâ€™t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?”

Source : Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.6, Hachette UK

You may also like:

Doris Lessing
Novelist
G. I. Gurdjieff
Teacher
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Ibn Arabi
Philosopher
John G. Bennett
Mathematician
P.D. Ouspensky
Robert E. Ornstein
Psychologist
Rumi
Poet
Tahir Shah
Author