"The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell."

-- Al-Ghazali

#Islamic Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“People will always choose more money over more sex”
“For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.”
“Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?" "I'm waiting for that little red-haired girl to walk by... I'm going to say hello to her and ask her how she's enjoying her summer vacation, and just sort of talk to her... You know..." "You'll never do it, Charlie Brown... You'll panic..." "Besides that, she's already walked by!”
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
“Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.”
“there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.”
“British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.”

Source : Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster
“I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 30, 2011

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