Ismaili Muslims Quotes & Sayings

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. — Cyril Connolly

There are three forces
of the body, mind and feeling. Unless these are together, equally developed and harmonized, a steady connection cannot be made with a higher force. Everything in the Work is a preparation for that connection. That is the aim of the work. The higher energy wishes to but cannot come down to the level of the body unless one works. Only by working can you fulfill your purpose and participate in the life of the cosmos. This is what can give meaning and significance to your life. — Jeanne De Salzmann

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking. — Philip Neri

It takes a thousand bricks to build a wall, but only one to tear it down. — Markus W. Lunner

... it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise. — Pat Conroy

When you left, I somehow couldn't be myself, — Paulo Coelho

I don't talk in sound bites. — Michael Moore

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. — Tony Robbins

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law. — Stephen Vizinczey

I mention this because there is the question of how children become aware of what the world is, and how to act in it. How, — Elizabeth Strout

All wdl be judged. Master of nuance and scruple, Pray for me and for all writers living or dead;
Because there are many whose works
Are in better taste than their lives, because there is no end T o the vanity of our c a h g : make intercession
For the treason of all clerks.
Because the darkness is never so distant,
And there is never much time for the arrogant
Spirit to flutter its wings,
Or the broken bone to rejoice, or the cruel to cry,
For Him whose property is always to have mercy, the author
And giver of all good things.

W.H. Auden, "At the Grave of Henry James — W. H. Auden

Either this guy's one in a million or you're a psychotic bitch.
Torre, Alessandra (2014-08-24). Black Lies (Kindle Locations 1787-1788). Alessandra Torre. Kindle Edition. — Alessandra Torre