“ Children believe they are immortal, death is an empty word like the name of a country they’ve never been to on a time-faded map. I wasn’t a child anymore. Aspen Matis
“ She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-ass underneath. She could ogle, but she would not fall until she knew he deserved her. Kimberly Kinrade
“ During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper. Napoleon Hill
“ Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at lar… Idries Shah
“ When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixation… Idries Shah
“ The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to unde… Idries Shah
“ In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many area… Idries Shah
“ WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained. Idries Shah
“ As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom. Idries Shah
“ Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night! Idries Shah
“ The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny. Idries Shah
“ ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia. Idries Shah
