Imam Hanifa Quotes & Sayings

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection. — San Juan De La Cruz

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.' — Andrei Codrescu

Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become. — Matthew Barnett

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly. — Shana Abe

An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted. — Chris Weitz

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self. — Meher Baba

I'll tell you about Ryder. He's the star quarter back of our Division 1A state championship football team. Top student in our class, he doesn't even have to work for it. He plays the piano like some kind of freaking prodigy, and I wouldn't be surprised if he composed sonatas or something in his spare time.
Oh, and did I mention that he's gorgeous? Of course he is. Six foot four, two hundred ten pounds of swoon-worthy good looks. Spiky dark hair, chocolate brown eyes, and full-on dimples. — Kristi Cook

Take the advice I sometimes have to give to myself: Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off. — Karen Ehman

Relationships program our minds as to what is and isn't an acceptable way to be treated. — Ruthie Dean

Be thou of Zen. Remember, in tranquillity, that the Absolute, the Tao, is within thee, that no priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain. — James Clavell

Do you suppose kissing is like riding a bicycle? — Dawn M. Turner

What a cocky little turd. I — Mariana Zapata

People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated. — Lois Gibbs