Nador24 Quotes & Sayings

In Islam, and especially among the Sufi Orders, siyahat or 'errance' - the action or rhythm of walking - was used as a technique for dissolving the attachments of the world and allowing men to lose themselves in God. The aim of a dervish was to become a 'dead man walking': one whose body stays alive on the earth yet whose soul is already in Heaven. A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, toward the end of his tourney, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will...it was quite similar to an Aboriginal concept, 'Many men afterwards become country, in that place, Ancestors.' By spending his whole life walking and singing his Ancestor's Songline, a man eventually became the track, the Ancestor and the song. The Wayless Way, where the Sons of God lose themselves and, at the same time, find themselves. — Meister Eckhart

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them. — Arthur Helps

There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

I was struck, as always, that a heathen poet from long ago should know so much of the human heart, and how little that heart changes, though great cities fall and new dispensations sweep away the old and pagan creeds. — Geraldine Brooks

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody. — Maya Angelou

I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres. — Jonathan Lethem

I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone. — Paula McLain

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty. — Oscar Wilde

It's a mad, mad world when your best friend is a dog and your second-best friend is an automatic rifle, but such was life in the Aze. — John Green

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of? — Mary McCormack

I just love clothes! I'm a girl who loves clothes, accessories, shoes, bags and jewelry. — Kelly Rowland