"While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands."

-- Ibn Arabi

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Self Quotes

“When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesnâ€™t matter the reason of its making.”
“London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”
“Do not rush, for God's secret is patience. Everything that is meant to be, will come at the designated time.”
“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”
“Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.53, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Apr 22, 2013
“To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.”
“I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are a little more offbeat, so people - as we get to know the writers, and as the writers get to know us, they start to write around us more, and that's why I think the pilot is not always the best way to get to experience a new television show, because we're fitting ourselves into these characters. Whereas as the show evolves, they're writing the characters for us and for our strengths and weaknesses.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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