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“I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My home made education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London asking questions. One was, “What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“You see, Islam is the only religion that gives both husband and wife a true understanding of what love is. The Western “love” concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. But love transcends just the physical. Love is disposition, behaviour, attitude, thoughts, likes, dislikes - these things make a beautiful woman, a beautiful wife. This is the beauty that never fades. You find in your Western civilisation that when a man’s wife’s physical beauty fails, she loses her attraction. But Islam teaches us to look into the woman, and teaches her to look into us.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Men are attracted by spirit. By power men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!”
― Malcolm x, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“...the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much. Stated another way: only guilt admitted accepts truth.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
― Hamza Yusuf

“I’ve had thousands of problems in my life. Most of which never actually happened.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“The Prophet said, “Contentment is a treasure that is never exhausted.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“The Prophet supplicated that God, the Exalted, show him things in their reality, distinguished and clear: “Show me the truth as truth and give me the ability to follow it; and show me falsehood as falsehood and give me the ability to avoid it.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“Isn’t it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name ‘Muhammad’, is the most beloved athlete in the world?”
― Hamza Yusuf

“Life is too precious to be left to chance”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Ist es nicht absurd, daß einem die Erinnerung an gute zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“...I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“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

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Die Neugier ist die mächtigste Antriebskraft im Universum, weil sie die beiden größten Bremskräfte im Universum überwinden kann: die Vernunft und die Angst.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“Mit der Not ist es wie mit dem Erfolg. Beides verschafft dir falsche Freunde und echte Feinde,”
― Sebastian Fitzek, AchtNacht

“Der Klügere gibt nie nach. Er wartet nur auf den passenden Moment, um zuzuschlagen.”
― Sebastian Fitzek, AchtNacht

“Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand.
Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand.”
― Abdal Hakim Murad

“It is better to be a naïve believer than an intellectual bereft of intuition.”
― Abdal Hakim Murad

“The alpha male must not be a wife beta.”
― Abdal Hakim Murad

“You will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.”
― Cat Stevens

“From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.”
― Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)

“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry”
― Rupi Kaur