Wisdom's Den

1. The hardest prison to escape is your mind.
2. Opportunities don’t happen you create them.
3. Don't you know that it all begins and ends in your mind.
4. Take the first step, in order for more steps to open up for you.
5. You are rich, when you are content and happy with what you have.
6. Success is not final; failure is not fatal:  It is the courage to continue that counts.
7. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
8. The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
9. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
10. Become so confident in who you are that no one’s behaviour, opinion, or rejection can affect you.
11. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind.

Quotes by Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA)

1.     Wisdom will not be complete except by following the truth.

2.     The most merciful person is the one who forgives when he is able to revenge.

3.     Avoid oppressing the one who does not have any supporter against you, other than the Almighty God.

4.     Whoever seeks the satisfaction of people through disobedience of God; Then God subjects him to people.

5.     Avarice is disgrace; cowardice is a defect; poverty often disables an intelligent man from arguing his case

6.     To me, death is nothing but happiness, and living under tyrants nothing but living in a hell.

7.     The most generous person is the one who offers help to those who do not expect him to help.

8.     Wisdom is the noblest heritage.

9.     Piety is the best weapon of defense.

10.  Crying out of fear from God is salvation from the hell fire.

11.  Charity and alms are the best remedy for ailments and calamities.

Quotes by Paulo Coelho

1. If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
2. People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
3. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
4. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
5. Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
6. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
7. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
8. When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
9. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
10. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
11. Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

Quotes for Everyone

1.            Change the world by changing yourself.

2.            Prayer is not a "spare wheel" that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a "steering wheel" that directs the right path throughout.

3.            A Car's WINDSHIELD is so large & the Rear view Mirror is so small? Because our PAST is not as important as our FUTURE. So, Look Ahead and Move on.

4.            Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.

5.            Friendship is like a BOOK. It takes few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write.

6.            All things in life are temporary. If going well, enjoy it, they will not last forever. If going wrong don't worry, they can't last long either.

7.            Once you realize what you have now is enough, you are truly rich.

8.            Old Friends are Gold! New Friends are Diamond! If you get a Diamond, don't forget the Gold! Because to hold a Diamond, you always need a Base of Gold! 

9.            The first to help you are the ones who know how it feels to fall down.

10.         Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, GOD smiles from above and says, "Relax, sweetheart, it's just a bend, not the end!

11.         When GOD solves your problems, you have faith in HIS abilities; when GOD doesn't solve your problems HE has faith in your abilities.

12.         A blind person asked St. Anthony: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?" He replied: "Yes, losing your vision!"

13.         When you pray for others, God listens to you and blesses them, and sometimes, when you are safe and happy, remember that someone has prayed for you.

14.         WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

15.         Relations are like birds, if you hold tight they die, if you hold loosely they fly, but if you hold with care they remain with you forever.

Sayings on Sacrifice

They never die who sacrifice their lives for a great cause

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love without sacrifice.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.

Sayings of Scholars

1. The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.
2. You have two characters which Allah likes; gentleness and deliberation.
3. Be good to others that will protect you against evil.
4. Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.
5. The strongest among you is he who subdues himself.
6. It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
7. Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.