Bayazid Quotes & Sayings

I'm different now, but back then I used to be the type of guy who would say, "I like you. Do you also like me or not? No? Tell me the truth. I'll give you time to think about it!" But now This isn't a lie but I've had 3 girlfriends, and I've dated each of them for 3 years. When it comes to dating, I'm the type who would be with someone for a long time. Before we start dating, I'd keep watching her. It's because I hate being hurt. I tend to give my everything once I date — Yunho

Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or e-mailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. — Ivan Reitman

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less. — Sheryl Sandberg

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children. — Ronald Reagan

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. — Bayazid Bastami

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever. — Deborah Eisenberg

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. — Bayazid Bastami

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. — Bayazid Bastami

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it. — Bayazid Bastami

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided. — Robert Louis Stevenson

They who were so important, who wanted to create the world, are dumbfounded; everything crumbles. — Maurice Blanchot

Her roommate was at the table with a grin that was all trouble. "So you're not going to tell me about last night?"

Erica rolled her eyes and went about getting her breakfast. "You saw Reed. How do you think it went?"

She chuckled. "Being hot doesn't mean you're good in bed."

Erica peered over her shoulder. "We never even got to the bed."

Trin's eyes widened. "Oh gods! I eat at this table! — Lisa Kessler

All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's
Divine Presence. — Bayazid Bastami

Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study. — Christopher Hitchens

Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food. — Debi Mazar

fleas are like a bad habit - awfully hard to get rid of once you get them — Haruki Murakami

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence. — Bayazid Bastami

Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me — Bayazid Bastami

Britain might be in the grip of rationing, but buying the materials for a homemade bomb was a piece of cake. (In fact, obtaining the ingredients for a decent cake would have been rather harder.) — Ben Macintyre

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. — Bayazid Bastami