Shamsa Abid

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Shamsa’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (132)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (94)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
islam‎ (35)
fiction‎ (34)
classics‎ (21)
self-help‎ (18)
biographies‎ (15)
spiritual‎ (14)
world-politics‎ (10)
business‎ (9)

childrens-fiction‎ (8)
philosophy‎ (8)
romance‎ (8)
quran‎ (7)
sufism‎ (7)
women-in-islam‎ (7)
ghazali‎ (6)
children-s-classics‎ (5)
islamophobia‎ (5)
personal-growth‎ (5)
autobiography‎ (4)
creed-theology‎ (4)

psychology‎ (4)
historical-fiction‎ (3)
non-fiction‎ (3)
relationships‎ (3)
terrorism‎ (3)
war‎ (3)
dystopia‎ (2)
feminism‎ (2)
hadith‎ (2)
history‎ (2)
islamic-theology‎ (2)
poetry‎ (2)

social-psychology‎ (2)
comparative-religion‎ (1)
epistemology‎ (1)
graphic-novel‎ (1)
literary-criticism‎ (1)
media‎ (1)
muslim-scholars‎ (1)
mystery‎ (1)
public-policy‎ (1)
theism‎ (1)
time-management‎ (1)
travel‎ (1)

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Shamsa’s Quotes

“your life will not end with death. You are Immortal. You were always there and you always will be.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

tags: death, immortal, islam, life, spirituality, sufi

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“Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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“It was possible that he was in love with the way she wrote the number two—her parallel lines expressing a kind of free movement inside the invisible box that contained the ideograph’s strokes.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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“What surprised him was that as he felt closer to death, he felt the terror of death, its very finality. There were so many things he had failed to do. There were even more things he should never have done.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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“In the end, your belly was your emperor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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