Quotes

[Red Sky at Morning]

Not quite a quote, but a key moment nonetheless…

 

[Zakat]

Inadequate is what surely, nobody ever needs to feel, at any point in time.

- Plain Old Me

 

[Awoken2]

 

[A Freeman]

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[UnderAlienControl]

 

[Zakat]

 

[Stucky]

"Listen, years ago I rode with Juárez against Emperor Maximilian. I lost many chickens but I thought it was worth it to be free. When Porfirio became President, I supported him – but he stole my chickens. Then came Huerta and he stole my chickens. Then it was Carranza’s term, and he stole my chickens too. Now comes Pancho Villa to liberate me and the first thing he does is steal my chickens.(…) What makes one different from the others? My chickens don’t know. All over the world revolutions come and go. Presidents rise and fall. They all stole your chickens. The only thing to change is the name of the man who takes them."

―Old Man in Pueblo-

Indiana Jones chronicles.

 

[A Freeman]

 

[Red Sky at Morning]

Frodo : I can't do this, Sam.

Sam : I know.
It's all wrong
By rights we shouldn't even be here.
But we are.
It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo.
The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were,
and sometimes you didn't want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy?
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened?
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.
I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t.
Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo.... And it’s worth fighting for!

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Orwell's mentor]

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”

– Potter Stewart

 

[Zakat]

Whoever is denied caution, is not a man of Knowledge, even if he can split hairs in dealing with obscure items of knowledge.

- Hazrat Imām Jafer Sadiq

 

[Red Sky at Morning]

I read this on Facebook and thought it was very good:

I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me. She smiled and said to me…
“I started succeeding when I started leaving small fights for small fighters.
I stopped fighting those who gossiped about me…
I stopped fighting with my in laws…
I stopped fighting for attention…
I stopped fighting to meet peoples expectation of me…
I stopped fighting for my rights with inconsiderate people..
I stopped fighting to please everyone…
I stopped fighting to prove they were wrong about me….
I left such fights for those who have nothing else to fight…
And I started fighting for my vision, my dreams, my ideas and my destiny.
The day I gave up on small fights is the day I started becoming successful & so much more content.”
Some fights are not worth your time….. Choose what you fight for wisely.

Author: Lim Teck Yong

Kira Panina( Russian artist)

 

[A Freeman]

 

[UnderAlienControl]

 

[Orwell's mentor]

"We cannot have it both ways: if we are free, we are responsible; if we are not responsible, we are not free."

- Fulton Sheen

 

[Zakat]

 

[Zakat]

(Durbar/Court)

Hazrat Imām Jāfer Sādiq was contemporary (alive during the reign) of Khalīfa Mansūr 'Abbās, called by the latter once to his Durbar (Court), and given special honor.

The Imām asked the Khalīfah (ruler) not to be called again, as it distubed his prayers to God.

He said, concerning THANKFULNESS,

The lowest level of the gratitude is to see that the blessing comes from God, irrespective of the cause for it, without the heart being attached to that cause.

 

[A Freeman]

 

[Awoken2]

 

[Awoken2]