When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah.
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State. The atmosphere reminded me of a word it was ’democracy. ’
Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.
The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.