Fudayl Ibn Iyad Quotes & Sayings

I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which I
was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything. — Jim Corbett

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget. — Toby Keith

The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. — Al Fudayl Ibn Iyad

He who fears his servants is less than a servant. — Publilius Syrus

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you. — Al Fudayl Ibn Iyad

Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her heart's desire'. — Paul Gallico

All I know is that my life is filled with little pockets of silence. When I put a record on the turntable, for example, there's a little interval-between the time the needle touches down on the record and the time the music actually starts-during which my heart refuses to beat. All I know is that between the rings of the telephone, between the touch of a button and the sound of the radio coming on, between the dimming of the lights at the cinema and the start of the film, between the lightning and the thunder, between the shout and the echo, between the lifting of a baton and the opening bars of a symphony, between the dropping of a stone and the plunk that comes back from the bottom of a well, between the ringing of the doorbell and the barking of the dogs I sometimes catch myself, involuntarily, listening for the sound of my mother's voice, still waiting for the tape to begin. — Robert Hellenga

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities. — Eugene Kennedy

If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation. — Al Fudayl Ibn Iyad

Superpowers will topple and reorganize. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. — Edward Hirsch

You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others. — P. W. Botha