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There is no better way to spend a gloomy day, then to sleep it all away

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Little girl's definition of conscience: ''Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. ''

Look for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time.

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Last week is the time you should have either bought or sold, depending on what you didn't do.

People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.

Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are Play Ball!

Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted.

Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone.

True happiness comes from doing what's right not just doing what makes you feel good.

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

To be a winner, you have to know what losing feels like!

You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

The problem with relationships are that people are so busy falling in love that they forget to fall in like.

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

The only way to be number one is to be number one.

There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

You love what you find time to do.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it --three minutes; to collect the data in it --all my life.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.

Fear that man who fears not God.

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.

The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.

If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.

The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, ''Let's have ham and eggs.'' The pig then replied, ''That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.''

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.