Great Sufi Quotes

#1. You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose,

Jeremy Lin

#2. I am fundamentally an optimist.

Nelson Mandela

#3. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

#4. To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Pema Chodron

#5. From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had little charm for her.

Max Beerbohm

#6. The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement "the arrogance of belonging," and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

Grant Morrison

#8. Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

Geoffrey Hinton

#9. God always seeth man from heaven and the angels report to Him every hour.

Sarah Dunant

#10. Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#11. At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.

Peter Mountford

#12. Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win we've got Pedro coming back today and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Sox win this game.

Kevin Millar

#13. Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

George Wald

#14. When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?

Muriel Barbery

#15. Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one.

Alice Notley