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“Dying is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is Something else. So many of the people who came to visit me are unhappy.. Why?...
For one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me-even in my current condition. I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving caring souls. How many people can say that?”
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For one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me-even in my current condition. I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving caring souls. How many people can say that?”
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“إن الصوفية التي تنادي بإهدار العقل و تُمجّد الفقر و لبس الخرق على أنها الطريق إلى الله هي انحراف في الدين و ابتعاد عن جادة الصواب، و لا ينبغي للمسلم أن يرفض الدنيا، و إنما عليه أن يجعل منها مطية إلى الآخرة. إن مفهوم الزهد عند المسلم هو رفض عبودية المال، لا رفض المال لكونه أجراً كريماً على عمل أو جهد”
― الوجود والعدم
― الوجود والعدم
“لو اجتمعت سلطات العالم على قلب رجل واحد لما استطاعت أن تُغيّره كُرهاً....هناك في أعمق الأعماق روح أعتقها الله من كل القيود لا سلطان لأحد عليها. حتى الشيطان يقول له الله {إِنَّ عِبَادِى لَيْسَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَٰانٌ إِلاَّ مَنِ ٱتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ ٱلْغَاوِينَ } ٤٢ الحجر. و الغاوون هم أولئك الذين اتبعوا الشيطان بإرادتهم و هواهم و دون سلطان منه”
― الوجود والعدم
― الوجود والعدم
“Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible”
― My Name Is Memory
― My Name Is Memory
“Amazing, I thought. I worked in the news business. I covered stories where people died. I interviewed grieving family members. I even attended the funerals. I never cried. Morrie, for the suffering of people half a world away, was weeping. Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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