Shoghi Quotes & Sayings

Lady' is an opinion; 'woman' is a fact. — Martina Navratilova

Well, that boy's voice," my grandmother told me, "that boy's voice could bring those mice back to life!" And it occurs to me now that Owen's voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to life - with a vengeance. — John Irving

The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived. — Shoghi Effendi

For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity. — Shoghi Effendi

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. — Albert Camus

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves. — Shoghi Effendi

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future. — Shoghi Effendi

He mused on this village of his, which had sprung up in this place, amid the stones, like the gnarled undergrowth of the valley. All Artaud's inhabitants were inter-related, all bearing the same surname to such an extent that they used double-barrelled names from the cradle up, to distinguish one from another. At some antecedent date an ancestral Artaud had come like an outcast, to establish himself in this waste land. His family had grown with the savage vitality of the vegetation, drawing nourishment from this stone till it had become a tribe, then the tribe turned to a community, till they could not sort out their cousinage, going back for generations. They inter-married with unblushing promiscuity. — Emile Zola

People are always afraid of the truth. — Mickey Rourke

We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions. — Shoghi Effendi

So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be, and I let it take me along. So I've had songs that started out as being about the environment and ended up being love songs and love songs that ended up being about the environment. I've had things that I thought would be a poem and realized that it was just too big for that. I've got to do something larger and it became a play. I wrote one poem that started a whole play. — Andy Wilkinson

The troubles of this world pass,
and what we have left is what we have made of our souls ... — Shoghi Effendi

I adore you for all your scars, I whispered as I leaned over and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. — S.C. Stephens

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money. — David Lee Roth

Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. — Shoghi Effendi

"The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life." (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, February 18, 1954) — Shoghi Effendi

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself ... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right. — Shoghi Effendi

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born — Margaret Atwood

It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action. — Shoghi Effendi

We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an invisible source. To be continually giving out for the good of our fellows undeterred by fear of poverty and reliant on the unfailing bounty of the Source of all wealth and all good
this is the secret of right living. — Shoghi Effendi