"Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart."

-- Shams Tabrizi

#Heart Quotes #Evil Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Kneel down to pray. Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue. Each is a vital page of God's blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven.”
“When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.”

Source : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale
“I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest ***** in the business. But I was a 34C when I was 17...They stay up when I wear a push-up bra. But if people could see me when I come home and take off my bra, how could they think these are fake?”
“By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'”
“It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”

Source : J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.72, Hachette UK
“Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.”
“Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'”

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