Shabana Mukhtar > Shabana's Quotes

“I'm not defending their views. I'm defending their right to have their views. There's a difference.”
― Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― S.K. Ali, Saints and Misfits

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“What is next to ecstasy?
Pain.
What is next to pain?
Nothingness.
What is next to nothingness?
Hell.”
― Umera Ahmed

“cheezen waqti hoti hain, toot jati hain, bikhar jati hain, rawaiye daaimi hote hain, sadiyon k liye apna asar chorh jate hain..”
― Nimra Ahmed, Jannat Kay Pattay / جنت کے پتے

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“My recommendation: don’t be special; don’t be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator.
The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.This often means giving up some grandiose ideas about yourself: that you’re uniquely intelligent, or spectacularly talented, or intimidatingly attractive, or especially victimized in ways other people could never imagine. This means giving up your sense of entitlement and your belief that you’re somehow owed something by this world.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Curse this world for what it does to the mothers, for what it does to the daughters. Curse it for making us strong through loss and pain, our hearts torn from our chests again and again. Curse it for forcing us to endure.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“ہم وہ سنتے ہیں، جو ہم سننا چاہتے ہیں۔ وہ دیکھتے ہیں، جو ہم دیکھنا چاہتے ہیں۔وہ یاد رکھتے ہیں، جو ہم یاد رکھنا چاہتے ہیں۔

اور بعض دفعہ ہم دوسروں کے کانوں سے سنتے ہیں، دوسروں کی آنکھوں سے دیکھتے ہیں، دوسروں کا کہا یاد رکھتے ہیں۔

لیکن حقیقت کچھ اور بھی تو ہوسکتی ہے؟

شبانہ مختار کے ناول 'اُف یہ لڑکی' سے اقتباس”
― Shabana Mukhtar, Uff Yeh Ladki

“دل لالچی ہے۔

دل فتنہ پسند ہے۔

دل بہانے باز ہے۔

آخر انسان کا دل غلط کام کرنے کے لیے اتنا للچاتا کیوں ہے؟

بیماری میں بد پرہیزی کھانا کھانے کے لیے۔

انٹرنیٹ پر خوامخواہ وقت ضائع کرنے کے لیے۔

بے پردگی کی حدود میں داخل نئے فیشن کے لیے۔

غیر اسلامی کپڑے اور عادات و اطوار اپنانے کے لئے۔

ایسا کوئی دن نہیں جاتا جب کسی سماجی، معاشرتی، مذہبی اصول کو توڑنے کا خیال دل میں نہ آئے۔دل کا یہ بہلاوا کہ یہ تو ایک چھوٹی سی بے ضرر سی بات ہے۔ اسلام کے خلاف نہیں۔

کوئی یہ نہیں سمجھتا کہ چھوٹی چھوٹی غلطیاں کرتے کرتے ، بڑے گناہ بھی چھوٹے لگنے لگتے ہیں۔

شبانہ مختار کے ناول 'بچھڑنا نصیب تھا' سے اقتباس”
― Shabana Mukhtar, BichhaRna Naseeb Thha بچھڑنا نصیب تھا

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Don’t waste days, for they become weeks.
Don’t waste weeks, for they become months.
Don’t waste months, for they become years;
and don’t waste years, for they become a lifetime.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“When I see memories, I see the past.
When I see thoughts, I see the present.
When I see intentions, I see the future.

When I see regret, I see the past.
When I see hope, I see the present.
When I see expectation, I see the future.

When I see habits, I see the past.
When I see actions, I see the present.
When I see character, I see the future.

When I see karma, I see the past.
When I see chance, I see the present.
When I see destiny, I see the future.

When I see knowledge, I see the past.
When I see understanding, I see the present.
When I see wisdom, I see the future.

When I see elders, I see the past.
When I see adults, I see the present.
When I see children, I see the future.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.

Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I’m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I’ve got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to binge and purge. I’m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I’m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!

I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up. You can’t dumb me down because I’m tireless and I’m wireless, I’m an alpha male on beta-blockers.

I’m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I’m a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I’ve got a love-child that sends me hate mail.

But, I’m feeling, I’m caring, I’m healing, I’m sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I’m gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.

I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the “F” word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn.

I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I’m toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I’ve been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.

I’m a rude dude, but I’m the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I’ve got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don’t snooze, so I don’t lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I’m hangin in, there ain’t no doubt and I’m hangin tough, over and out!”
― George Carlin

“Normal' is a concept formed by averages but it changes with education and tolerance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient