It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.
The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.
La gente que no puede confiar son ellos mismos no confiables, y por lo tanto, no se les puede confiar cosas importantes.
Continuously, in commemoration of the Friend We drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.
El Sufismo, dicen, es aquello que le permite a uno entender la religión, cualquiera sea su actual forma exterior.
He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.
To Him who has sense, a sign is enough For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.
Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?
It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.
legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.
He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
We are not able to express ourselves in a hospital, even when seriously ill, we don�t have time.
