Shoghi Quotes

#1. It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.

Shoghi Effendi

#2. Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

Shoghi Effendi

#3. We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

Shoghi Effendi

#4. She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Yiyun Li

#5. The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.

Shoghi Effendi

#6. For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity.

Shoghi Effendi

#7. When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.

Girl Talk

#8. My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind of a window into people's lives where we could be compassionate and curious and empathetic and we could tell each other secrets.

Jon Ronson

#9. Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

Charles Bukowski

#10. The troubles of this world pass,
and what we have left is what we have made of our souls ...

Shoghi Effendi

#11. Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.

Shoghi Effendi

#12. I played a lot of moms. You're always too young when you're playing moms. My first kid when I started playing moms was about six months old. And then a month later I was doing another commercial audition and my kid was two, and then about eight months later my kid was 11.

Carrie Coon