Spiritual quotes

[Qasibr]

Door kaheen tanhah, aik parinda thah angusht badanda
Somewhere far away a bird was sitting all alone and astonished

Soochta thah, kiyun hain yeh loag itnay nadaan
Wondering why people are so unrealistic

Jaantay huay kay janaa hai uskay pass
Knowing that they(mankind) have to return to him(God)

Qiyoon naheen ahtay yeh buray kaamoon say baaz
Why do they not refrain from bad deeds


Maloom hai unkoh yeh dunya hai faani
They know that the world is a mortal place

Khatm hohnay wahlee aik chootee kahani
A small story that will soon end

Kohee na jaanay kab aakhirat ah jahay
No one knows when the day of judgement arrives

Phir hazrat-e-insaan kutch bhee nah kar pai
Then man won't have a chance to correct anything

Arfa Karim

An Allama Iqbal inspired poem, written by a 10-year old girl who was a terminal cancer patient. Poem's around 3:18, along with her inspiring story:
Arfa Karim - Princess of Bill Gates - YouTube

 

[notsuperstitious]

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

- Rabindranath Tagore

 

[Levvame]

"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river."

Al-Ghazali

 

[Faysii]

Lord, Fill a Muslim’s Heart/With a Desire so Fervent/That it will Set his Heart a Flame/And Stir his Soul.

(Muhammad Iqbal)

 

[russellpeters]

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

-Nietzsche

Tao Teh Ching (-3.


When the Way is lost, virtue arises
When virtue is lost, kindness arises
When kindness is lost, morality arises
When morality is lost, custom arises
Custom being a superficial expression
of loyalty and faithfulness,
and the beginning of disorder.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Famous Persian poet Saadi;


Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.

If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.

If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.


^^ This quote is used in the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the UN building in New York.

 

[russellpeters]

Who knows for certain?
Who shall here declare it?
Whence was it born, whence came creation?
No one knows whence creation arose;
and whether God has or has not made it.
He who surveys it from the lofty skies,
only he knows--or perhaps he knows not.

Rg Veda

 

[Levvame]

I'm glad to see that people share quotes they like and gets inspired by.

 

[Vassnti]

Each time these blossoms open I recall the friend who gave me the saplings,
And the times we used to stop to drink beneath his trees;
But those springs of twenty years ago are like a dream,
And the wine cups of those days are tea-bowls now.
- Kisei Reigen

 

[Levvame]

one of the most inspiring quote i learned since i was child belongs to a poetry by Erzurumlu Ibrahim Hakki (a Turkish philosopher.)

"Bad things to good, God modifies
Think not He does otherwise
Always watched on by the wise
What God will ordain, let us see
Whatever He does, well does He"

- Erzurumlu Ibrahim Hakki

 

[Faysii]

A goal is a Dream with a Deadline.” Napoleon Hill

 

[Dubious]

 

[Solomon2]

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.​

Abraham Lincoln