Sufi Teachings Quotes

#1. It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

Idries Shah

#2. The eel's pause gave Kim far too long to weigh how incredibly stupid this impulse was
as if the tattoo covering his wrist weren't reminder enough of how irrevocable some rash ideas could be.

K.A. Mitchell

#3. Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.

Leila Janah

#4. Some people, she decided, magically surface in these horrible moments knowing exactly what to do, which spaces to fill.

Bill Clegg

#5. Desire turns us into ghosts

Octavio Paz

#6. Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

Mary Lambert

#7. Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.

Barry Lyga

#8. Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

Lil' Wayne

#9. I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#10. When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

Gordon Pirie

#11. Like rings in a large tree trunk that had been logged and exposed, every year of her life was visible in the wrinkles that lined her face, neck and arms. She was a living, breathing fossil.

S.W. Lothian

#12. The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

James Rozoff

#13. Image-bearing means becoming fully human, not becoming divine. It means reflecting as a limited being the perfections of a limitless God.

Jen Wilkin

#14. The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

John Moody

#15. Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.

T.F. Hodge

#17. Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience.

Hazrat Inayat Khan