Saadi

“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.

Proverb”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

“I bargained with Life for a penny,
and Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

Life is a just employer.
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid”
― Jessie B. Rittenhouse