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"در دردها دوست را خبر نکردن خود یک نوع عشق ورزیدن است"
— علي شريعتي

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"Oh My Lord! grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things that I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

خداوندا به من آرامشی عطا کن که بپذیرم آنچه نمی‌توانم تغییر دهم و جراتی که تغییر دهم آنچه را که می‌توانم و علمی که تفاوت این دو را دریابم"
— علي شريعتي

16 people liked it

"اگر تنها ترین تنهاها شوم ، باز خدا هست ، او جانشین همه نداشتن هاست
نفرین و آفرین ها بی ثمر است
اگر تمامی خلق گرگهای هار شوند و از آسمان ، هول وکینه بر سرم بارد تو مهربان جاودان آسیب ناپذیر من هستی
ای پناهگاه ابدی! تو می توانی جانشین همه بی پناهی ها شوی"
— علي شريعتي

tags: spititual
28 people liked it

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
2,397 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
2,836 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
2,048 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,793 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,058 people liked it

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
1,743 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,772 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,785 people liked it

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
1,809 people liked it

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
1,665 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,839 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
1,950 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,607 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,750 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,220 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,841 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,335 people liked it

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,275 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,084 people liked it

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
916 people liked it

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
826 people liked it

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
597 people liked it

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
512 people liked it

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
502 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
444 people liked it

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
393 people liked it

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

362 people liked it

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
237 people liked it

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
344 people liked it

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
253 people liked it

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
329 people liked it

"The future depends on what you do today."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, carpe-diem, future, present
222 people liked it

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
192 people liked it

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: fighting, hurt, inner, peace, permission, strength, trial
198 people liked it

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: honesty, justice, truth
160 people liked it

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspiration
184 people liked it

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
132 people liked it

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: evil, violence
122 people liked it

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. "
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, difference, significance
100 people liked it

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: humanity, mistakes, strength, wisdom
107 people liked it

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, religion
106 people liked it

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
— Mahatma Gandhi

108 people liked it

"(Asked what he thought of Western civilization) 'I think it would be a good idea.'"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: civilization, eastern, philosophy, society, western
75 people liked it

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
97 people liked it

"Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny."
— Mahatma Gandhi

96 people liked it

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: faith, humanity, ocean
85 people liked it

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, man, need
81 people liked it

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