"O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the prize. Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract."

-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#Pain Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.”

Source : Judith N. Shklar, Bernard Yack (1996). “Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar”, p.80, University of Chicago Press
“Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.”
“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldnâ€™t forget?”
“Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.”
“We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time.”
“You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.”

Source : Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits (2010). “The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany”, p.39, CustDev
“This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.”
“In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.”

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