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But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#life

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton. ↗

— Wasif Ali Wasif

#sufi-wisdom #life

What we recognize as Life is actually a premise that enforces the belief of the separateness from God. ↗

— Sufian Chaudhary

#life #sufian-chaudhary #world-of-archangels #life

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it. ↗

— Sufian Chaudhary

#house-of-god #life #purity #spiritual-books #spirituality

Apa perlunya teriakan bagi yang mampu mendengar bisikan ↗

— Rumi

#love #sufi #life

To inform fools, that they are so, does not make them any wiser. ↗

— Taylor E Bennet

#stuff #life

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#history #struggle #suffering #life

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87 ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#life

This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras. ↗

— Dennis Sharpe

#hell #repeating #suffering #time-travel #life

it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless. It didn't undo the harm he had wrought; it didn't please anyone or improve anyone's life. ↗

— Kim Fielding

#life #suffering #wisdom #life