Chu Hsi Quotes & Sayings

Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart to settle with his Lord shall be in a state, calm and tranquility, and whosoever sent it amongst the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. — Earl Wilson

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder. — Elizabeth Gilbert

With love in the heart and kindness in the mind, nothing is impossible. — Debasish Mridha

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs ... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone. — Peter O'Toole

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. — Peter Stone

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you. — Neil Diamond

FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway. — Chelsea Leyland

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live. — Michel De Montaigne

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has. — Tom Landry

The greatest thing in life is health. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

Let us change the tense for convenience. — Mark Twain

One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership. — Michael Shermer

Successful marriage was a balancing act - that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation - — Stephen King