Crystine Lee Quotes & Sayings

The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come). — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists. — Plato

Writing is fun. Promoting? Not so much... — Bea Cannon

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. — Mark Twain

Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read. — Dorie Greenspan

Everyone has their own idea of happiness. — Eric Weiner

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way. — Oscar Wilde

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things. — Joshua Bell

Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly. — Simon Pegg

Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love. — Rumi

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me. — Tom Brady