Farid Attar Quotes

#1. Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

Franz Kafka

#2. I am alone; make me your single goal --
My presence is sufficient for your soul;
I am your God, your one necessity --
With every breath you breathe, remember Me.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#3. Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?

Linda Fiorentino

#4. Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die?

Farid Al-Din Attar

#5. You have the colours of
Those jewels you so inordinately love,
And yet you seem -- like your excuses -- lame.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#6. Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot ...

Farid Al-Din Attar

#7. Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

Al Gore

#8. But when I'm talking about God, I'm talking about the divine being who can't be located tangibly with the kind of evidence that the rationalism of reductionism demands in the same way that you cannot be located in your eyelashes or spine or shoulder.

Rob Bell

#9. When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#10. The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#11. Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#12. Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subsid

Farid Al-Din Attar

#13. Your coat is beautiful, but where's your brain?

Farid Al-Din Attar

#14. Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#15. To seek death is death's only cure.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#16. Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

C.S. Lewis

#17. I knew nothing would ever come of it, that's why it's called a crush. They're totally one sided and they just crush your heart into oblivion.

Milda Harris

#18. If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets

Farid Al-Din Attar

#19. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#20. Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business ... I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle.

Adrien Broner

#21. Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine --
And if you lack the heart's rich blood, take mine.
Love thrives on inextinguishable pain;
Which tears the soul, then knits the threads again.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#22. A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#23. The Sea
Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#24. If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

Carl Sagan

#25. His part is mercy, ours is endless praise.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#26. The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#27. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.

Farid Al-Din Attar