"If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings."

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Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.57, The Book Foundation

Muhammad Asad

#Moving Quotes #Men Quotes #Water Quotes

“We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.”

Source : Robert William Dale (1877). “Nine Lectures on Preaching: Delivered at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut”
“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”
“In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.”
“Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1929). “Song and laughter”
“I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire â€” where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!”
“Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.”
“It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar”
“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”

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