Ustaz Yasin Quotes & Sayings

Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons ... I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part. — Cassie Ventura

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments. — Georgette Heyer

She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creations_ of the human intellect, of the human imagination! there is nothing man can do comes half so near the making of the Maker as the ordering of his way--except one thing: the highest creation of which man is capable, is to will the will of the Father. That _has_ in it an element of the purely creative, and then is man likest God. But simply to do what we ought, is an altogether higher, diviner, more potent, more creative thing, than to write the grandest poem, paint the most beautiful picture, carve the mightiest statue, build the most worshiping temple, dream out the most enchanting commotion of melody and harmony. — George MacDonald

Television is a different challenge; it is not a stage. But each opportunity that I have to learn I learn, and I take the opportunity to work. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise. — Frederick Lenz

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life. — Ricky Gervais

Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man. — David Hume

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and know
That I'm bluster and buff and empty show. — Edgar Guest

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can't survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live. — Veronica Roth

Really!" said the fat lady to Jane and Katharine and Martha, who were wedged tightly against her. "Stop shoving." "I'm sorry, but we haven't time for you now," said Jane to the fat lady. And she wished her twice as far as where she belonged. The lady was quite annoyed to find herself suddenly at home in her own kitchen, and later sued the newspaper for witchcraft. But she was never able to prove her case, and anyway that does not come into this story. Back in her office, the children's mother sat staring palely at the place where the lady had been. — Edward Eager

When we see something like this we forget the most important and most obvious thing ... those butterflies will never fly again."
"It's unnatural, and yet it's so seductive ... "
"That's exactly the effect that death has on some individuals. That's why serial killers exist. — Donato Carrisi

A CHILD SPOKE ABOUT HIS FEAR, LONG AGO. IT RESEMBLED A little song:

In the attic
there's a beam that hits you on the head,
there's a wind that bangs the shutters,
there's a mouse that peeps out of the corner. — Mesa Selimovic

This helps explain why for many women, speaking honestly in a professional environment carries an additional set of fears: Fear of not being considered a team player. Fear of seeming negative or nagging. Fear that constructive criticism will come across as just plain old criticism. Fear that by speaking up, we will call attention to ourselves, which might open us up to attack (a fear brought to us by that same voice in the back of our heads that urges us not to sit at the table). — Sheryl Sandberg

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. — John G. Diefenbaker