“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.”
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
“We are asleep until we fall in love.”
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
“Happy people have no history.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
“If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.”
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
“There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.”
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
“Read less, study less, but think more.”
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
“The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.”
“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
“The most important time is Now.”
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.”
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.”
“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.”
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”
“The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.”
“Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.”
“It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“Life is fragile and absurd.”
“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.”
“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“Upon meeting, you’re judged by your clothes, upon parting you’re judged by your wits.”
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”
“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.”
“The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.”
“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”
“Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?”
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