Sunday, December 26, 2010

WORDS OF WISDOM

Real happiness comes from inside, nobody can give it to you. 
-Sharon Ston

When Allah S.W.T tests you, it is never to destroy you. When Allah S.W.T removes something in your possession, it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift. 
-Ibn Al-Qayyim

You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore. 
-Successories 

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-Mother Teresa

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you will help them to become what they are capable of being. 
-Johann W. von Goethe

It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future. 
-Roberto Goizueta

Silence is a great source of strength. 
-Lao Tzu

Intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather than using a standard response. 
-Jean Piaget

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
-Judy Collins

If you desire Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, be persistent in doing the things He loves.
-Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.
-Michael Vance 

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.
-John C. Maxwell 

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, but they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-Bernice Johnson Reagon 

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy because we will always want to have something else or something more.
-David Steindl-Rast  

Trials and tribulation are like feeling the heat and cold, when one knows that they cannot be avoided, he will not feel anger at their onset, nor will he be distressed or disheartened."
-Ibn Taymiyyah

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill 

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe 

Every punishment from (Allah) is pure justice and every blessing from (Allah) is pure grace. 
-Ibn Taymiyyah

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt 

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford 

A sign of the heart's death is the absence of sadness over the acts of obedience that you have neglected and the abandonment of regret over the mistakes that you have made.
-Ibn Ataillah RadhiAllahu Anhu

Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.
-Pema Chodron 

Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. 
-Surat ar-Rad 13:11

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it. It's only for wallowing in.
-Katherine Mansfield 

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer 

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
-Thich Nhat Hanh 

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just out taking a walk. 
-Benjamin Hooke

Asking a question is only embarrassing just for that moment. Not asking is embarrassing and it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
-Japanese Proverb

Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.
-Richard Carlson

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.
-William Jennings Bryan

If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.
-Noam Chomsky

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