Ismat Bousader > Ismat's Quotes

“Je voulais vous faire sourire, et mes larmes ont coulé. Je voulais vous faire oublier, et la mort m'a rattrapé. Je voulais vous offrir ce que vous m'avez donné. On ne sait jamais n'est-ce pas ? Il se peut qu'un bien soit notre mal, et qu'un mal soit notre bien. Sait-on jamais ? Je vous offre donc ce sourire, louange à l'Unique de toutes les façons, et que la Paix vous accompagne, et Sa lumière, et Sa chaleur.”
― Tariq Ramadan

“La Voie à l'horizon et la voix intérieure

A l’Orient comme à l’Occident, notre époque donne naissance à la plus grande famine jamais constatée sur la terre. La torture des corps fait écho à la souffrance des âmes: les corps et les cœurs ont faim d’humanité. La pauvreté, l’errance, les dictatures, les guerres bafouent chaque jour la dignité de plusieurs milliards de femmes et d’hommes. La solitude, l’individualisme, la misère morale, le manque d’amour rongent l’être de tous ceux que le confort devait contenter. Où est la voie? Où allons-nous? Comment être une femme, comment être un homme aujourd’hui?”
― Tariq Ramadan

“If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.”
― Tariq Ramadan, What I Believe

“Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him”
― Tariq Ramadan

“Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Wesley Powell

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
― Kabir

“... What is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.”
― Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
― Andre Maurois