"Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price"

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Soul Quotes

“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world”

Source : Jane Blocker, Ana Mendieta (1999). “Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile”, p.34, Duke University Press
“One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.”
“If you throw one stone, itâ€™s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, itâ€™s political action. If you set a car on fire, itâ€™s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, itâ€™s political action. Protest is when I say I donâ€™t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.”
“To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.”
“A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?”
“The most important actions are never comfortable.”
“Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.”

Source : John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.160, SPCK
“Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.”

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