Martin Lings Quotes

#1. It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

Shelley Fabares

#2. The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#3. When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Maya Angelou

#4. The shadows outside tamed none of him. No, they cast him as stronger and more dangerous than ever before. He was bigger. Hungrier. Predatory.

He said nothing as he crawled through the window, but his dark, flashing eyes and body stalking toward her spoke volumes.

Kendall Grey

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Anonymous

#6. I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of Allah's message.

Martin Lings

#8. My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Uzo Aduba

#9. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

Stephen Dunn

#10. More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution ... than to anything else.

Martin Lings

#11. The most sophisticated things in the world are precisely those within the reach of everyone.

Paulo Coelho