"If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!"

-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”
“Tyranny is always weakness”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32
“Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in a tabletop circuit demonstrating an RCA atomic battery as a power source.]”
“No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
“Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.”
“If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.”
“Vision is seeing visibly the light of hope within the range of the eyesight.”
“The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.”

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