Hunayn Quotes & Sayings

Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate wrong, it's very questionable whether you really love righteousness. — David Seamands

Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us? — Marion D. Hanks

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. — Paul Brunton

Nothing tells you that you are not on Earth anymore than exhaling at one price and inhaling at another. — Ian McDonald

My talent matters more to me than the money does. — Lady Gaga

The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men. — Aleister Crowley

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead. — Scott Adams

I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want. — Anna Paquin

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas. — Dennis Franz

From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse. — Luis E. Navia

We have discussed your definition, analyzed its ramifications to a reasonable depth, and accept it," said the expendable.
"Meaning I gave you what you wanted?"
"Ambition and desire are human traits. You gave us what we lacked. — Orson Scott Card

People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not. — Nathaniel Buzolic

They always win who side with God. — Frederick William Faber

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours. — Isabel Allende