God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.
I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.
There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men. '
People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.