Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
-Quran
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supplying demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
-Reginald Fessenden
Only when service for a common good is the primary purpose are you truly leading.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The Gods gave a microbe a drop of water, and in it he lived. They gave an ant a half acre of land, and he prospered. They gave a tiger the forest and he formed an empire and became an emperor. They gave man the Universe and all the knowledge therein. He entered of his own free will the dungeon of Dogma, shut his mind to truth and slew and starved his brothers.
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich