Quotes - Salman Shariff (salmanstrange) (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) Showing 1-18 of 18

#1

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

#2

“The strong one is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the strong one is the one who controls himself while at the point of anger.”

Sahih Al-Bukhari”
― Sahih Al-Bukhari

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#3

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

4046 likes

#4

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: rhett-butler-to-scarlett

1682 likes

#5

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: paradox

2461 likes

#6

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

2528 likes

#7

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

10860 likes

#8

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

6284 likes

#9

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: thinking

7719 likes

#10

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

4286 likes

#11

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12170 likes

#12

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

1468 likes

#13

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11156 likes

#14

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

2609 likes

#15

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3229 likes

#16

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

2906 likes

#17

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

tags: citizenship, identity, world

1553 likes

#18

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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