[talemul_haq]

“The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.” -- Khalil Gibran

I range the fields with pensive tread,
And pace the hollow rooms
And feel (companion of the dead)
I'm living in the tombs.
- Abraham Lincoln, "Memory"

"Meeting is such sweet sorrow,
For someday we may have to part -
Hush, don't you make a sound,
You're going to let me down."
–Ben Harper, "Ashes"

^similar to the hadith, whomever you meet/love you will forsure tast the pain of seperation.

"And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated.
And I, I'm haunted
By the promises I made
And others I have broken."
- Poe, "Haunted

"I've seen you laugh at nothing at all
I've seen you sadly weeping
The sweetest thing I ever saw
Was you asleep
And dreaming."
- The Magnetic Fields, "Asleep and Dreaming"

[Bluestar]

one can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager , too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant

-The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

[vanillawafer]

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"

-The Little Prince

[Bluestar]

"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."

Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

[Bluestar]

All from A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini:

Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami

God, in his wisdom, has given us each weaknesses, and foremost among my many is that I am powerless to refuse you

Mullah Faizullah

I will use a flower petal for paper
And write you the sweetest later
You are the sultan of my heart
the Sultan of my heart

You couldn't stretch a leg here without poking a poet in the ass

Jalil

...a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated

Baba

Did you know that if you flig snot in Siberia, its a green icycle before it hits the ground?

Tariq

Like a compass that points north, a mans accusing finger will always find a woman. Always. You remember that Mariam

[Bluestar]

Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party, and the form and purpose of the journey remained similar. An obstacle race with a prize at the end

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

[Blue_Phoenix]

From Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! by Scott Adams:

"Great ideas often look identical to stupid ones right up until the moment they work."

[Bluestar]

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly

The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett

[Blue_Phoenix]

I wanted to pick a few from Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but there were so many good ones that I'd just end up posting the whole book.

[Shivermetimbers]

"the end."

[iceonfire]

"A PICKLE ON FIRE IS A PICKLE WORTH EATIN"-HK
From the autobiography of Muhammad Kareem Abdul Haneef Jabba Khan



“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

From Dr. Seuss


thats enough i think lol

[Bluestar]

There is purity and moral integrity in children that illuminates a struggle. A single hair on their head is worth more than all those who sit in judgement on them, let alone their killers.

in reference to palestinian children who throw stones at tanks

Bush in Babylon, Tariq Ali

[Bluestar]

O my people in love with our homeland
I'm not scared of barbarians gathered at our gates,
No, I'm afraid of the enemies within...

Tyranny, Autocracy, Dictatorship

Part of a poem by Mudhaffar Al-Nawab, 2003

[Blue_Phoenix]

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

From Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams.

Blooey, you would LOVE that book.

[monet22]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

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"Baby, we have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here"

I love this quote!