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"O Mankind. Indeed we have created you male and female and made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another." Qur'an 49:13
O Allah, grant me benefit in what Thou hast taught me, teach me what will benefit me, and increase my knowledge. Islamic supplication - Du'aa
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness. -- Imam Ghazali--
Cowardice never saved anyone. -- Imam Shamyl--
Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -- Hans Margolius--
"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." -- Voltaire--
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." -- Winston Churchill--
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin --
It is better to die on your feet than to walk crawling on your knees. -- Dolores Ibarrori --
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless you love the truth, you can not know it. --Blaise Pascal--
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa--
Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust,
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.
-- Sir Walter Ralegh --
Footprints in the Sand
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,
You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?
The Lord replied, The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.
--Mary Stevenson--
The Starfish
There was a young man walking
down a deserted beach just
before dawn. In the distance he saw
a frail old man. As he approached the
old man, he saw him picking up
stranded starfish and throwing them
back into the sea. The young man
gazed in wonder as the old man again
and again threw the small starfish
from the sand to the water. He asked
"Old man, why do you spend so much
energy doing what seems to be a waste of time?"
The old man explained that the
stranded starfish would die if left in
the morning sun.
"But there must be thousands of
beaches and millions of starfish!"
exclaimed the young man. "How can
you make a difference?"
The old man looked down at the small
starfish in his hand, and as he threw
it to the safety of the sea, he said,
"I make a difference to this one."
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." --Mother Teresa--
"The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." --Jennifer Aniston--
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." -- Kenji Miyazawa--
"Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain." -- Robert Gary Lee--
"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing" -- Herodotus--
If there is still any reason to thrive on this earth, it is the smiles and the cries in the little ones eyes.
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