Mahmud Quotes

#1. Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I ran out of the apartment in a rage. Mahmud followed me, and we walked home, not speaking. Shortly before we reached the door to the house, he grabbed hold of me. "You're my friend, even if you've hurt me," he said.
I embraced him and asked his forgiveness.

Rafik Schami

#3. Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

Mahmud Tarzi

#4. Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

Mahmud Shabistari

#5. You've got a lovely everything.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Hannah Arendt

#7. Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

Mahmud Shabistari

#8. The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground.

Terry Goodkind

#9. In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one ... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

Mahmud Shabistari

#10. In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

Mahmud Shabistari

#11. To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

Sri Aurobindo

#12. The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.

Mahmud Shabistari

#13. Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.

Mahmud Tarzi

#14. There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#15. Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

Mahmud Shabistari

#16. The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

Mahmud Tarzi

#17. The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal

#18. Go sweep out the chamber of your heart.
Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved.
When you depart out, He will enter it.
In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.

Mahmud Shabistari

#19. Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.

Mustafa Mahmud

#20. When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

Mahmud Shabistari

#21. Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.

Mahmud Shabistari

#22. The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you're shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

Eric Barker

#23. The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

Mahmud Tarzi

#24. I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.

Scott Baio