Thursday, 23 June 2016

Spiritual Tonic - I

  1. Accept your limitations
  2. Stop worrying. Worry kills life.
  3. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves.
  4. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy.
  5. Begin each day with a PRAYER. It will arm your soul.
  6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition.
  7. Never be disappointed it weaken your belief in Allah.
  8. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind.
  9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence.
  10. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views.
  11. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.

Monday, 20 June 2016

Quotes for Everyone

  1. Be a voice not an echo
  2. Master the art of observing
  3. Let what you love be what you do.
  4. All glory comes from daring to begin.
  5. A drop of ink may make a million think.
  6. They told me I couldn’t. That’s why I did.
  7. Wear your tragedies as armor not shackles.
  8. From the little spark may burst a mighty flame.
  9. Don’t break the silence unless you can improve it.
  10. Your character should preach more loudly than your words.
  11. The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

Monday, 16 May 2016

Quotes on Life

  1. Every sun has to set.
  2. Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do.
  3. If they can't be bothered to meet up, don't force it.
  4. A horse of good breed is not dishonored by his saddle.
  5. Don't waste your time on those who don't appreciate you.
  6. If they don't return your calls, don't call them or return theirs.
  7. Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.
  8. Never make someone a priority for whom you are only an alternative.
  9. A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.
  10. There are plenty of people out there who would love your company and you just don't know it yet.
  11. A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

Thursday, 5 May 2016

11 Arabic Proverbs

  1. A house divided cannot stand.
  2. A change is as good as a rest.
  3. Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
  4. Ask thy purse what you should not buy.
  5. A friend advises in his interest, not yours.
  6. Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
  7. Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do.
  8. Every day of your life is a page of your history.
  9. A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
  10. Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.
  11. A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.

Friday, 15 April 2016

Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

  1. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
  2. We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” – Leo Tolstoy
  3. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
  4. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
  5. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
  6. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy
  7. Some mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.' – Leo Tolstoy
  8. The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. – Leo Tolstoy
  9. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. – Leo Tolstoy
  10. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
  11. Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. – Leo Tolstoy

Friday, 1 April 2016

Zaha Hadid's Quotes

In the memory of Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, born on October 31, 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman and the first Muslim to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, winning it in 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. She died of heart attack on March 31, 2016, at Miami, Florida, United States.

  1. I really believe in the idea of the future.
  2. My friendships are very important to me.
  3. Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
  4. Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
  5. What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
  6. I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
  7. Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
  8. Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
  9. I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
  10. I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
  11. Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Quote a Smile

  1. All people smile in the same language.
  2. You are not fully dressed without a smile.
  3. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
  4. Never regret something that once made you smile.
  5. The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
  6. You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
  7. One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
  8. Give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
  9. You’ve got to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you’ve got.
  10. There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.
  11. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.