[The Rooz]

I'd love to hear the quotes people have read and heard...it can offer us all a bit of inspiration
"The heart that loves is always young."?

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."?

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."?

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The disobedience that begets humility and broken heartedness is better than obedience that begets honor and pride. [Ibn Ataillah]

"All humans are dead except those who have knowledge ... and all
those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good
deeds ... and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who
are sincere ... and those who are sincere are always in a state of
worry."
Imam Shafi'

The Prophet said that women totally dominate men of intellect and possessors of hearts. But ignorant men dominate women, for they are shackled by an animal ferocity. They have no kindness, gentleness or love, since animality dominates their nature. Love and kindness are human attributes; anger and sensuality belong to the animals. She is the radiance of God, she is not your beloved. She is a creator - you could say that she is not created.
- Jalal al-Din Rumi

lets see some of your favourites!!!

[Ryan]

"It is not that I am smart, it is just that I stay with the problems longer"
Albert Einstein

[The Rooz]

Aa

hehe, one of my favourite Einstein quote's;

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

wasalam

[Fatima]

"If there are any martyrs in this affair it would certainly be those brave firefighters and police that went in there to save human lives and in that process lost their own." - Hamza Yusuf
(Im sure y'all know what "affair" he's referring to ...)

[*Slightly Deranged*]

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts

-Madame de Stael

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

-Aldous Huxley

Success in life consists of going from one mistake to the next without losing enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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[Sandra]

Be yourself, everyone else is taken.

God doesn't fix your problems for you, He gives you the opportunity to fix them for yourself.

Fish are like people, if they kept their mouths shut, they wouldn't get into trouble.

Sunshine without rain is the recipe for a desert

[Alive...]

i dont get that last one EP!?

I got one, from someone on another forum:
"Ideal men do fall out of the sky...they just die of impact"

[*Slightly Deranged*]

lol

I like EP's first two

[Sandra]

no snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible

[Aise]

Al-Muhasiby said, “I wish that time could be acquired with money. If so I would buy time from wasteful and ungrateful people so that I could spend it serving Allah (SWT).”

I really, really like that one, but what are we going to do with more time if we already waste the time we have. So sad

some of my favorite quotes:

"If memory serves me correctly, I was wearing a little white tank top and a short black skirt. I had been raised Orthodox Muslim, so I had never before worn such revealing clothing while in my father's presence. When we finally arrived, the chauffer escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father's suite.

As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget.

He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them."
He looked at me with serious eyes. "Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."

Source: "More Than A Hero: Muhammad Ali's Life Lessons Through His Daughter's Eyes."

such a sweet approach - i love it

Stand up for what you believe in. Fight for what is right.
Because on the Day of Judgment the only thing that will stand up for you is your own deeds, and the only thing you will be fighting for is a place in Heaven

The first thing Allah created was the Pen, and then Allah ordered it to write so it wrote everything that will happen until the Day of Judgment. Today people are rizik-a-phobic even though it was written down 50,000 years before the Heavens and the Earth was created…are you still concerned about what you are going to get?
Anwar Al-awlaki

so true - many of today’s generation are so caught up in worldly gain that they forget that we are only living to serve Allah in order to earn a place in Paradise, May Allah forbid us from becoming astray, Ameen!

Our deeds don't even clasify us for a second in Jannah. with the Mercy of Allah we will only enter.
Anwar Al-awlaki

so beautiful , what more could we want than the Mercy of Allah…?

[*Slightly Deranged*]

'the difference between boys and men is the lessons they learn'

[*Slightly Deranged*]

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

This post has been edited by *Slightly Deranged*: Feb 23 2009, 10:48 AM