"And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!"

-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#Prayer Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.”
“War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?”
“I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - its a lot of fun because theres no responsibility. You let other people have the headaches. The director has all of the headaches.”

Source : "Rob Reiner On Being A Loud Voice Of Reason in ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2013.
“There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?" Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?" Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.”
“I was a great many far cries from myself.”

Source : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
“The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.”

You may also like:

Abu Hurairah
Al-Ghazali
Theologian
Al-Nawawi
Author
Al-Shafiâ€˜i
Imam
Ibn Taymiyyah
Philosopher
Malik ibn Anas
Muhammad al-Bukhari
Islamic scholar
Muhammad Iqbal
Philosopher
Abul A'la Maududi
Political philosopher