Jahan's Quotes

#1. The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

Aysha Taryam

#2. Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Billy Graham

#3. There was something so infantile in the man's fright that Jahan could not help but chuckle. Children, only they, stared up with sparkling eyes, pointing at the white beast.

Elif Shafak

#4. Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned.

Toba Beta

#5. Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness

Joel Brown

#6. The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can't make sense of someone who's so brand new to you.

Crystal Woods

#7. Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,
Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikley

In this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,
They go down on one side to come up on the other.

Allama Iqbal

#8. It seemed to Jahan that, in truth, this world, too, was a spectacle. One way or another, everyone was parading. They performed their tricks, each of them, some staying longer, others shorter, but in the end they all left through the back door, similarly unfulfilled, similarly in need of applause.

Elif Shafak

#9. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.

Mark Batterson

#11. Working is prayer for the likes of us," his master often said. "It's the way we commune with God."
"Then how does He respond to us?" Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.
"By giving us more work, of course.

Elif Shafak

#12. I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn't it.

Agatha Christie

#13. He who slings mud loses ground.

Gautama Buddha

#14. I am still drunk that you were here,
and you were mine.
And once again I stretch my hand out
for that wine;

As your drunk eyes could not bestir
themselves, I too
Can't move; as you love wine, I love
the wine that's you;

Jahan Malek Khatun

#15. I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

Thomas Sowell

#16. Sweets to the sweet," he murmured,

Clive Barker

#17. I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

Peter Carey

#18. Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

Margaret Halsey