Rakan > Rakan's Quotes

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”
― Francis Bacon

“If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.”
― Eminem

“That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.”
― Eminem

“You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.”
― Eminem

“fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.”
― Eminem

“I stopped using twitter because it's like a bunch of mental patients throwing shit at each other.”
― Joe Rogan

“You only regret the workouts you didn’t do.”
― Joe Rogan

“The universe rewards hustle.”
― Joe Rogan

“There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that God has given man the faculty of reason and therefore expects man to reason things out objectively and systematically for himself. To reflect and to question and to reflect.”
― Maurice Bucaille, The Qur'an and Modern Science

“Males do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behaviour, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”
― Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

“Austerity means to eliminate the comforts and cushions in your life that you have learned to snuggle into and lose wakefulness. Take away anything that dulls your edge. No newspapers or magazines. No TV. No candy, cookies, or sweets. No sex. No cuddling. No reading of anything at all while you eat or sit on the toilet. Reduce working time to a necessary minimum. No movies. No conversation that isn't about truth, love, or the divine.

If you take on these disciplines for a few weeks, as well as any other disciplines that may particularly cut through your unique habits of dullness, then your life will be stripped of routine distraction. All that will be left is the edge you have been avoiding by means of your daily routine. You will have to face the basic discomfort and dissatisfaction that is the hidden texture of your life. You will be alive with the challenge of living your truth, rather than hiding form it.

Unadorned suffering is the bedmate of masculine growth. Only by staying intimate with your personal suffering can you feel through it to its source. By putting all your attention into work, TV, sex, and reading, your suffering remains unpenetrated, and the source remains hidden. Your life becomes structured entirely by your favorite means of sidestepping the suffering you rarely allow yourself to feel. And when you do touch the surface of your suffering, perhaps in the form of boredom, you quickly pick up a magazine or the remote control.

Instead, feel your suffering, rest with it, embrace it, make love with it. Feel your suffering so deeply and thoroughly that you penetrate it, and realize its fearful foundation. Almost everything you do, you do because you are afraid to die. And yet dying is exactly what you are doing, from the moment you are born. Two hours of absorption in a good Super Bowl telecast may distract you temporarily, but the fact remains. You were born as a sacrifice. And you can either participate in the sacrifice, dissolving in the giving of your gift, or you can resist it, which is your suffering.

By eliminating the safety net of comforts in your life, you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openness which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.”
― David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

“Every moment waited is a moment wasted....”
― David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“إن الوعظ يجعل الناس شديدين في نقد غيرهم ، فالمقاييس الأخلاقية التي يسمعونها من أفواه الوعاظ عالية جداً . وهم لا يستطيعون تطبيقها على أنفسهم ، فليجأون إلى تطبيقها على غيرهم ، وبذا يكون نقدهم شديداً .”
― علي الوردي, وعاظ السلاطين

“هذه هـي طبيعـة الإنسـان في كل زمان ومكان, فهو يطلب العدل حين يكون محرومًا منه فإذا حصل عليه, بخل به على غيره”
― علي الوردي, وعاظ السلاطين

“العربي بدوي في عقله الباطن مسلم في عقله الظاهر”
― علي الوردي, وعاظ السلاطين

“لقد صار الوعظ مهنة تدر على صاحبها الأموال، وتمنحه مركزاً اجتماعياً لا بأس به. وأخذ يحترف مهنة الوعظ كل من فشل في الحصول على مهنة أخرى. إنها مهنة سهلة على أي حال، فهي لا تحتاج إلا إلى حفظ بعض الآيات والأحاديث، ثم ارتداء الألبسة الفضفاضة التي تملأ النظر وتخلبه. ويستحسن في الواعظ أن يكون ذا لحية كبيرة كثة وعمامة قوراء. ثم يأخذ بعد ذلك بإعلان الويل والثبور على الناس، فيبكي ويستبكي، ويخرج الناس من عنده وهم واثقون بأن الله قد رضي عنهم وبنى لهم القصور الباذخة في جنة الفردوس. ويأتي المترفون والأغنياء والحكام فيغدقون على هذا الواعظ المؤمن ما يجعله مثلهم مترفاً سعيداً.”
― علي الوردي, وعاظ السلاطين

“Freedom isn’t just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Las Vegas:
It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society.”
― Noel Coward

“Teachers are the most important component of a free society. And one of the most embattled. They are treated like the grease in a machinery grinding to nowhere instead of enlightened beacons of knowledge. Teachers are unappreciated, underpaid, and constantly criticized.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Las Vegas

“والتعقيب على أخطاء الحاكم بالنقد ليس أمرا مباحا فحسب ـ كما يظن من مفهوم كلمة الحرية السياسية ـ بل هو فى تعاليم الإسلام حق لله على كل قادر ، والسكوت عن هذا النقد تفريط فى جنب الله ومن ثم فعلى حملة الأقلام وأرباب الألسنة أن يشتبكوا مع عوج الحاكمين فى معارك حامية لا تنتهى أو ينتهى هذا العوج ، وكل حركة فى هذا السبيل جهاد ..!”
― محمد الغزالي, ‫حقوق الإنسان: بين تعاليم الإسلام وإعلان الأمم المتحدة‬

“وخلع الحاكم إذا خان الله ورسوله وجماعة المسلمين واجب ..! غاية ما هنالك أن تقدير زيغ الحاكم ، وتقدير عواقب عزلِه لا يرجع فيه إلى رأى واحد من الناس ، ولا إلى تصرفات تكون موضع تأويل أو تكون وجهة نظر لها وزنها ..!”
― محمد الغزالي, ‫حقوق الإنسان: بين تعاليم الإسلام وإعلان الأمم المتحدة‬

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke