"Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart"

-- Uthman ibn Affan

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.”
“Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”
“The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Donâ€™t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Donâ€™t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.”
“Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".”
“Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.”
“[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.”
“I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.”
“Every man is the hero of his own song.”

Source : Tad Williams (2000). “Otherland 3: Mountain of Black Glass”, p.246, Penguin

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