Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
من نمّ لك نمّ بك, ومن نقل إليك نقل عنك, ومن إذا أرضيته فقال ماليس فيك, كذلك إذا أغضبته قال فيك ماليس فيك.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.
Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
