“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.” — Rick Warren

“Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose. What he desires is non-desire; what he learns is to unlearn. He simply reminds people of who they have always been.

Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen, die sich über die Dinge ziehn. Ich werde den letzten vielleicht nicht vollbringen, aber versuchen will ich ihn. Ich kreise um Gott, um den uralten Turm, und ich kreise jahrtausendelang; und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm oder ein großer Gesang. — Rainer Maria Rilke

“All humans are dead except those who have knowledge;and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds;and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere;and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.” — Imam Shafi’i

يقول الامام الشافعي رحمه الله : كلـما أدبني الدهـر ... أراني نقص عقلي وإذا ما أزددت علما ... زادني علما بجهلي — أقوال وحكم الفلاسفة (@heekma) October 18, 2014 “The more I learn; the more I learn of my ignorance.” – Imām Shāfi’ī كلـما أدبني الدهـر … أراني نقص عقلي وإذا ما أزددت علما … زادني علما بجهلي

Cut them off silently, they know exactly what they did. — Unknown

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.” — Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” — Albert Einstein

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” — Elbert Hubbard

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.” — Karl Popper