Shafiuls Quotes & Sayings

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth. — Fernando Pessoa

The world is very different today than it was in 1968. — Mark Wahlberg

And his kiss wasn't at all like his smile. It wasn't crooked or one-sided. It was quite simply ... perfect. — Rachel Hawthorne

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle. — Lynn Andrews

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s. — Frederick C. Beiser

I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I. — Halsey