Nasrudin Quotes

#1. Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

Idries Shah

#2. Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Idries Shah

#3. A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?

Idries Shah

#4. It is true that he has no eyes or limbs and you are fortunate to have all of them,' agreed Nasrudin, 'and yet you won't earn half as much if you sit beside him and beg.

Sam Elcot

#5. A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use.

Nasreddin

#6. A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The teller asks him to please identify himself. Nasrudin reaches in his pocket and pulls out a small mirror. Looking into it, he says, "Yep, that's me all right." Meditation

Jack Kornfield

#7. There are no definite rules (in writing). You learn as you go.

Winna Efendi

#8. Music, in the past few years ... anything singable or understandable is square.

Ethel Merman

#9. Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they can still form impressive piles if no one takes them out to the trash.

Jon Stewart

#10. Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

Baird T. Spalding

#11. Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Ray Bradbury

#12. Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

John Green