Quotes of Idries Shah

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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

- Idries Shah

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“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ God's plans for you are always good and purposeful. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling