Love is. . . a positive force of life.
If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?
I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.
Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.
What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion. The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
I think it's important to understand Shari'a to be rooted in history - what we know about the history and what we don't know about the history. So then, if people want to argue, at least they're arguing from the same point and we know what we know, and we know what we don't know.
Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.