Muhammad > Muhammad's Quotes

“إن جيلاً يتبرم بالحالة التى هو فيها و يكتفى بالتبرم بدلاً من أن يجتهد فى إزالة بواعثه ... إن جيلاً هذا شأنه مقضى عليه بالزوال”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“A Man Who Is The Master of Patience Is The Master Of Everything else”
― George Savile

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
― Charles Nodier

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”
― Koji Suzuki, Birthday

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman