Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.
One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.
Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Find a way to express what moves you.
I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!
I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.