Gulistan Quotes

#1. You may be able to get the bone down your throat
But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.
(Gulistan)

Idries Shah

#2. If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from they slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Attributed to the Gulistan of Moslih Eddin Saadi

Hazel Felleman

#3. A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain ...

Winfield Townley Scott

#4. Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#5. People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

Joel Osteen

#6. It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it's really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store.

Sophia Amoruso

#7. Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

Quincy Jones

#8. Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Gudrun Ensslin

#9. A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Ronald Reagan

#10. We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Albert Einstein

#11. It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Wendelin Van Draanen