Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
-Richard Bach
The knowledge in your mind is immeasurably greater than all that you learnt, in all manner of ways, since birth, as a child, at school, in life, in the world, in your profession. This immeasurable knowledge sometimes percolates into the dream experience; sometimes it comes as intuitive ideas, as creative feelings.
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.