Quotations. - Page 69

usman khalid · #**681** Wednesday, November 30, 2011

"War is a game in which no matter how well one plays, both sides lose! One loses the territory and the other loses humanity!"
(Anonymous)

unsolved_Mystery · #**682** Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The person craving blessedness gives food to the poor to save his own soul.

If you look closely, you will not find a thing. Existence is an illusion; emptiness is real. Yet existence and emptiness are identical.

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

Those with faith have power, but they never use it.
Only the weak utilize power.
The meek are blessed, for they live in harmony.

On his death bed, his family mourning, he is serene, for he knows Death, like Life, is an illusion: there is no beginning and no end. (TAO)

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

The things we touch have no permanence.
There is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real comprehension of the beautiful being possible only through concentration upon some central motive.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the colour and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.

Take the relationship of love. I may be in love and my girlfriend may be a flawlessly beautiful and wonderful person, but if I can control her completely and become immersed in her perfection, I might as well fall in love with a mannequin. However, if she has a little mole on her cheek, or some kind of unpredictability of character, then the accidental has been introduced into the domain of the orderly, and I can enjoy her humanity more easily. (Alan Watts)

The root of ignorance itself is our mind’s habitual tendency to distraction.

True beauty could only be discovered by one who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.

Experience pain to the full.
Do not try to run away from it,
do not resist it by thinking of something else or by cursing fate.
Open your arms to it, embrace it, ask it to do its worst to you.
To go with it requires a moment's plucking up of courage;
it seems to invite disaster,
yet oddly enough it is the only salvation.

The sagely person is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete with them.

If you work on your mind with your mind, How can you avoid an immense confusion?

Does the possession of knowledge imply wisdom? No. The human race has stored vast sums of knowledge over millennia, yet there are still wars, there is still hunger, there is still selfishness and greed.

When the way comes to an end,
then change -
having changed, you pass through.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

The word seriousness is elaborated on by the saying "One aim with no distractions".

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

To take all you want is never as good as to stop when you should.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."

And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you should see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? (Kahlil Gibran)

Why, then, should we seek for something that does not need to be added to us? (Eka)

The body is like a floating cloud.
In push-hands, the hands are not needed.
The whole body is a hand,
and the hand is not a hand.

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Power that comes from purpose and wilfulness is apparent, and provokes opposition.

azeegum · #**683** Thursday, December 01, 2011

"S W O R D S" and "W O R D S" have the same letters.
Strange fact is that they have the same effect too; depends on how we use them.

"Destiny is the chances that you take but the choices that you make".

"If you can't, you must. If you must, you can".

I used to say "I sure hope things will change". Then I realized that the only way things were going to change for me was when I change.

Do not be too honest for others in this world, because straight trees are chosen first for cutting.

Successful people always have two things on their lips- smile and silence.
Smile to solve the problems and silence to avoid the problems."

Life without an aim is like a boat without water

"S W O R D" and "W O R D S" have the same letters.
Strange fact is that they have the same effect too; depends on how we use them.

"Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want"

"Do you have enemies? Good! That means you have stood for something in your life." Winston Churchill

Ask yourself, "How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?"

I suggest you answer, "As long as it takes."

"Be Yourself: an original is always worth more than a copy"

"If you do not thank ALLAH after every smile, then you have no right to blame HIM for every tear"

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase"

"Time, blessings and tragedy have the ability to change people. The wise ones make sure the change is for the better."

"Success never depends on the size of our brain,, but the size of our thoughts"

"When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give chance to right things to chase you".

"Some people think that to be strong is not to feel pain.
The reality is the strongest person are those who feel it, understand it and accept it."

"Smile even if it is a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile..."

"As long as you are faced in the right direction, size of the steps do not matter"

"Life does not get easier, you just get stronger"

The main difference between attitude and ego is that
"attitude makes you different from others, while ego sets you alone from others."

"The real thing that works is improving the quality of your argument rather than raising your volume"

Seven Beautiful Logics

1.Make peace with your past so that it doesn't spoil your future.
2. What others think of you is none of your business.
3.Time heals almost everything; give the time, some time.
4.No one is the reason of your happiness except yourself.
5.Don't compare your life with others; you have no idea what their journey is all about.
6.Stop thinking too much; it's all right not to know all the answers.
7.Smile as you don't own all the problems of the world.

Ainee zulfiqar · #**684** Friday, December 02, 2011

"A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent"

Mukarrum · #**685** Saturday, December 03, 2011

Form the habits, then they will form you. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

Shooting Star · #**686** Saturday, December 03, 2011

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
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Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.
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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Ainee zulfiqar · #**687** Sunday, December 04, 2011

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Sikander-007 · #**688** Monday, December 05, 2011

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.-Paul Bourget

khuhro · #**689** Monday, December 05, 2011

*I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

*Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

*Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

comrade of che · #**690** Monday, December 05, 2011

inexperienced life is not worth living.

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