Ahmed > Ahmed's Quotes

“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“من الصعب علي أن أتصور كيف يمكن أن نصل إلى غاية نبيلة باستخدام وسيلة خسيسة !؟ إن الغاية النبيلة لا تحيا إلا في قلب نبيل : فكيف يمكن لذلك القلب أن يطيق استخدام وسيلة خسيسة ؛

بل كيف يهتدي إلى استخدام هذه الوسيلة حين نخوض إلى الشط الممرع بركة من الوحل لابد أن نصل إلى شط الملوثين .. أن أوحال الطريق ستترك آثارها على أقدامنا وعلى مواضع هذه الأقدام كذلك الحال حين نستخدم وسيلة خسيسة : إن الدنس سيعلق بأرواحنا ، ويسترك آثاره في هذه الأرواح ، وفي الغاية التي وصلنا إليها !.

إن الوسيلة في حساب الروح جزء من الغاية. ففي عالم الروح لا توجد هذه الفوارق والتقسيمات ! الشعور الإنساني وحده إذا أحس غاية نبيلة فلن يطيق استخدام وسيلة خسيسة .. بل لن يهتدي إلى استخدامها بطبيعته ! (( الغاية تبرر الوسيلة !؟ )) : تلك هي حكمة الغرب الكبرى !! لأن الغرب يحيا بذهنه وفي الذهن يمكن أن توجد التقسيمات والفوارق بين الوسائل والغايات !.

إن الوسيلة في حساب الروح جزء من الغاية . ففي عالم الروح لا توجد هذه الفوارق والتقسيمات ! الشعور الإنساني وحده إذا حس غاية نبيلة فلن يطيق استخدام وسيلة خسيسة .. بل لن يهتدي إلى استخدامها بطبيعته ! (( الغاية تبرر الوسيلة !؟ )) : تلك هي حكمة الغرب الكبرى !! لأن الغرب يحيا بذهنه وفي الذهن يمكن أن توجد التقسيمات والفوارق بين الوسائل والغايات !.”
― Sayyid Qutb, أفراح الروح

“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. ”
― Richard Lamm

“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School. ”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.”
― Hamza Yusuf

“God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it's a good thing - the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, so crush it.”
― Sheikh Hamza Yusuf

“Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“People say to you, ‘you’ve changed’, or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God that you have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don’t change. Dead things don’t change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.”
― Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

“You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
― Les Brown, The Power of Purpose

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.”
― Aviva Chomsky, "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”
― Lily Tomlin

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein