Asadullah Khan Quotes

#1. I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Khushwant Singh

#2. Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#3. For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#4. Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#5. Just because the conditions aren't exactly to your liking, or you don't feel ready yet, doesn't mean you get a pass. If you want momentum, you'll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.

Anonymous

#6. Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#7. Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#8. Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#9. If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#10. In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#11. Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#12. Love knows no difference between life and death
The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#13. The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#14. Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#15. Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

Sally Hawkins

#16. Because it demands large-scale paradigm destruction and major shifts in the problems and techniques of normal science, the emergence of new theories is generally preceded by a period of pronounced professional insecurity.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#17. I am my own worst enemy
I only feel beautiful when I am holding my son
Always expect the worst, that way you're never let down

Bill Norris

#18. The world is a playground -Indian

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#19. For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky!

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#20. Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#21. The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#22. The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#23. If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Charles Spurgeon

#24. While I am alive, I intend to live. (Everett Ruess to his friend Bill, Mar 9, 1931, p 31)

W.L. Rusho

#25. The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

Thiruman Archunan

#26. I need you. I do not know who I would be without you.

Cheryl McIntyre

#27. When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib