The only way to make the world safer foryourself is to treat others well.

June Callwood

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”  -- Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic.

Without knowledge action is useless andknowledge without action is futile.

Abu Bakr (RA)

Inever think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

It is disgraceful to stumble twice againstthe same stone.

Greek Proverb

Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (ofconduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engagesmuch in the Praise of Allah.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood isdishonesty.

Nobledeeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Pascal

Allah is Aware [Alim] of what isdone in secret and what is done in public. Nothing can be concealed from Allah.

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (RA)

Disciplineis learnt in the school of adversity.

Gandhi

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against YourGrace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

ImamShafii

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

MatthewArnold

"laughter does not solve problems.... but it eases failures."

Allah is the source of manisfestation of wonders.
SheikhAbdul Qadir Jilani(RA)

"what you find inside of your heart is what you will see as your reality outside of your heart."

"If you knew what I knew of the creatures that were staring up at you as you swim in the ocean, then you would not do it."

"There are those that give with joy, and that joy is their reward."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.

" but the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, and chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.  How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult."

By Kate Choplin

"A country deserves the criminals it produces."  by Jacob Holdt

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.

If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."

Muhammad Iqbal (b. 1877–d. 1938) was a preeminent Muslim poet, thinker, and statesman of India. He was educated at Lahore, Cambridge, and Munich. His eloquent writings in Urdu, Persian, and English were aimed at reconstructing Islamic thought in the modern age.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Delay is preferable to error.

If you don’t occupy your mind with good works, your carnal self will make you busy in bad deeds!

Imam Ash-Shafi`i

He granteth wisdom to whom He pleaseth; and he to whom wisdom is granted receiveth indeed a benefit overflowing; but none will grasp the Message but men of understanding. 

Qur’an 2:269

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H.G. Wells

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

John F. Kennedy

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Muhammad Iqbal

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Thomas Carlyle

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

Muhammad Ali

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Marie Curie

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t
Andy Roddick

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. McKay

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Alphonse de Lamartine

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H.G. Wells

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 502:

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H.G. Wells

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Whoever knows all things without knowing God-Great and Glorious is not worthy to be called wise because he does not know the most sublime and highest of all things.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

"My dear ones, why do we quarrel, try to outshine each other and keep grudges against each other? Let's go straight into the garden, walk and play there, love and appreciate each other and glorify life."

"With old liars who been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed real tears, although at that very moment or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, ( "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You are acting in spite of your holy wrath.")."

"And above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is the root of it all."

" You give but a little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

“ I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.  ”
   
- Muhammad Abduh (1849 - 1905) was an Egyptian jurist and religious scholar.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no destitution more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.198

Variant translation: There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Forgiveness is part of the treasure you need/To craft your falcon wings/And return/To your true realm of/Divine freedom.

–Hafiz

''My wife treats me like I am GOD...

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

ByAesop

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Those whose eyes never see beyond the world of phenomena are like those who mistake servants of the lowest rank for the king.

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

H.G. Wells

Performance of one’s duty should be independent of public opinion.

M. Gandhi

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.

The true greatness of man lies in his capacity for eternal progress.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Alfred Adler

"Politicos, like diapers, need to be changed often -- for the same reason."

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know.
It's what we know for sure that just aint so."

Mark Twain

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and Vision.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
- Charlie Brown.

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they are born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
- Ray Romano

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

It is reported that Al-Hasan Al-Basrî often used to say, “O youth! Seek the hereafter, for we often see people pursuing the hereafter and finding it as well as the dunyâ (worldly wellbeing), but we have never seen anyone pursue the dunyâ and gain the hereafter as well as the dunyâ.”

Al-Bayhaqî, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabîr, article 12.

It is reported that Sufyân Al-Thawrî – Allâh have mercy on him – said, “Wealth is the disease of this Ummah, and the scholar is the doctor of this Ummah. So if the doctor brings the disease to himself, how will he cure the people?”

Al-Dhahabî, Siyar A’lâm Al-Nubalâ`, Vol. 7 p243.

Education is the chief defence of nations.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.

Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in 'Young India,'1924.

This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope