"How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?"

-- Ibn Arabi

#Heart Quotes #Desire Quotes

“After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, p.93, Profile Books
“Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.”
“Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.”
“The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.”
“InÂ Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This RideÂ Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.”
“Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.”
“The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.”
“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”

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