Samira Mohamed > Samira 's Quotes

“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

“No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.”
― Desmond Tutu

“We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.”
― Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.”
― Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time

“We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.”
― Desmond Tutu

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
― Alfred Adler, What Life Should Mean To You Hardcover

“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
― Alfred Adler

“These three ties, therefore, set three problems: how to find an. occupation which will enable us to survive under the limitations set by the nature of the earth; how to find a position among our fellows, so that we may cooperate and share the benefits of cooperation; how to accommodate ourselves to the fact that we live in two sexes and that the continuance and furtherance of mankind depends upon our love-life. Individual”
― Alfred Adler, WHAT LIFE COULD MEAN TO YOU

“Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.”
― Alfred Adler

“The past you speak of is nothing more than a story skilfully compiled by ‘you now’. Please understand this point.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“In every way, violence is a low-cost, easy means of communication. But before deeming it morally unacceptable, we must say that it is a rather immature form of conduct for people to engage in.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Could you respect an immature human being? And could you have a real feeling of being respected by someone who threatens you in a violent manner? There is no respect in communication with anger and violence. Rather, such communication invites contempt. That reprimand does not lead to substantive improvement is a self-evident truth.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Viewed from the standpoint of the division of labour, all professions are honourable”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“PHILOSOPHER: As Fromm says, ‘While one is consciously afraid of not being loved, the real, though usually unconscious fear is that of loving.’ And then he continues by stating, ‘To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“PHILOSOPHER: Instead of seeking approval, one has to approve oneself, with one’s own mind.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“The attitude of the need for approval, of trying to get another person to decide one’s worth, is just dependence.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Respect denotes the ability to see a person as he is; to be aware of his unique individuality.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Place value on the person being that person without pushing your own value system on them. And further, assist in their growth or unfolding. That is precisely what respect is. In the attitude of trying to manipulate or correct another person, there is no respect whatsoever.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be
done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of
hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the
precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen,”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature's hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and beautiful truth!”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“I carry all before me. In those brief moments the whole secret of the world is revealed to me. I perceive that the supreme quality in the human soul is effrontery. Genius in the man of action is simply the apotheosis of charlatanism. Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mr. Gladstone, Lloyd George—what are they? Just ordinary human beings projected through the magic lantern of a prodigious effrontery and so magnified to a thousand times larger than life. Look at me. I am far more intelligent than any of these fabulous figures; my sensibility is more refined than theirs, I am morally superior to any of them. And yet, by my lack of charlatanism, I am made less than nothing. My qualities are projected through the wrong end of a telescope and the world perceives me far smaller than I really am. But the world—who cares about the world?”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Dreams shape the world”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?”
― Neil Gaiman