Jumaa Quotes & Sayings

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens. — Marcel Proust

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next? — J.G. Ballard

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose. — Indira Gandhi

By doing good we become good. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. — Akhenaton

In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in a marketable security the gain or loss associated with the various outcomes is not totally inherent in the underlying business; it also depends on the price paid, which is established by the marketplace. The view that risk is dependent on both the nature of investments and on their market price is very different from that described by beta. — Seth Klarman

Buddhism suits me 'cuz nobody's in charge. Nobody's decidin' for me if I'm good or bad, goin' to heaven or hell. It's just me workin' on my head, you workin' your head, the friggin' Dalai Lama workin' on his head. — Ramez Naam

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. — Pierre Janet

The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning. — Paullina Simons

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life. — Graham Cooke

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. — Sophocles