"At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion."

-- Abdullah Yusuf Ali

#Eye Quotes #Passion Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Rather than beautifying oneâ€™s own creation, make better the environment that surrounds it.”
“I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.”
“I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.”
“History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.”
“And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?”
“I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, â€œI can't get into this, it's all about girls.â€ I thought to myself, â€œWell, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.â€”
“Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011
“It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.”

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