Ismail Al-faruqi Quotes

#1. But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. True intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Erica Jong

#3. When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Jeremy Taylor

#4. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time.

Ismail Al-Faruqi

#6. And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

G. M. Trevelyan

#7. We're only as sick as the secrets we keep.

Maria Nemeth

#8. Running doesn't just make me happy. Running keeps me alive. When I'm running-the blood pumping through my veins, the tunes playing in my ears, the muscles tightening on the inclines- the problems of the world disappear. It's just me, the sidewalk, and God.

Lisa Schroeder

#9. The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

Ruth Ozeki

#10. A real Guru's initiation is beyond the divisions of sects and creeds: it is the awakening to our own inner reality which, once glimpsed, determines our further course of development and our actions in life without the enforcement of outer rules.

Anagarika Govinda

#11. And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable.

Kent Haruf