Sufi Saint Sayings

#1. Delhi's most famous Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, who gave spiritual guidance to the incredible Amir Khusro - musician, scholar, poet and the father of qawwali.

Saba Naqvi

#2. The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell ...
So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.

Craig Thompson

#3. None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons

Audrey Truschke

#4. Give up a drop, become an ocean
- Sufi saint Rumi.

Kashmira J. Gohil

#5. What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

Mary Oliver

#6. Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#7. It's funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought mattered. No more fragments of glass, pieces of a broken mirror you can't put back together and wouldn't want to even if you could.

Rebecca Harris

#8. I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

Sandra Bernhard

#9. Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

Rose Wilder Lane

#10. Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

E.B. White

#11. When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.

Dimitris Mita

#12. Sometimes it seemed like those with the most rotten interiors were blessed with the most exquisite exteriors.

Sara B. Larson

#13. I define sexy as a real salt-of-the-earth woman who knows who she is, who feels strong and powerful.

Andie MacDowell

#14. I honestly don't think about myself; it's more about my kids. They were both born in L.A., and they're like little beams of sun, little tornadoes, and they can't be in a confined space. And one of the things I love most about L.A. is the freedom there.

Liberty Ross

#15. Kate won't be troubled. I don't know any gentlemen, anyway.'

'Thank you,' said Lymond.

Dorothy Dunnett

#16. Some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense ...

John Geddes