Mohammad > Mohammad's Quotes

“Claims for the
occurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated on
a case-by-case basis. There can be no general theory to cover
the character of unique events, but the refusal to contemplate
the possibility of revelatory disclosures of an unprecedented
kind would be an unacceptable limitation, imposed arbitrarily
on the horizons of religious thought.”
― John Polkinghorne

“أشفق يا رب وشدد جميع الأجنحة المتكسرة”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality—there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth—actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“mom, i am lonely.
i think i learnt it when dad left;
how to turn the anger into lonely,
the lonely into busy.”
― Sabrina Benaim, Depression & Other Magic Tricks

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
― Donald Woods Winnicott

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
― D.W. Winnicott

“The man dies in all those that keep silent.”
― Wole Soyinka

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
― Jonathan Swift

“I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack of resources… And I began to see there was something that, at that time, seemed to me almost as important as being a famous researcher or making some substantial contribution to medical science, and this was helping those people.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

“تو ای دوستدار علی، تو ای دوستدار فاطمه، و تو ای دوستدار حسنین؛ فکر مکن که دوستی تو نسبت به آنها به این است که چیزی نذرشان کنی! مثلا سفره نذرشان کنی، چلچراغ نذرشان کنی... این دوستی آنها نیست. آنها اهل این حرفها نیستند تا دوستیشان به این چیزها باشد. دوستی تو به آنها در کجا نمودار می‌شود؟ فقط یک جا، و آن رفتار تو، عقیده تو، اندیشه تو، فکر تو و عمل توست. هر قدر عقیده و اندیشه و عملت به اینها نزدیکتر باشد نشانه آن است که دوستی راستین صحیح آنها در تو ریشه دار تر است. محبت اهل بیت و ولایت آنها بازده و ثمره‌ای جز اطاعت بیشتر خدا و پرهیز بیشتر از معصیت خدا ندارد.”
― Sayyid Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti, ولایت، رهبری، روحانیت

“We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being—and fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. That simply cannot be the proper path forward.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich fromm, The Art of Being

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“The way you eat not only decides your physical health, but the very way you think, feel, and experience life. Trying to eat intelligently means understanding what kind of fuel this body is designed for and accordingly supplying it, so that it functions at its best. Let”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

“It is our compulsive reaction to the situations in which we are placed that causes stress.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy