Mavis Fielding
Interesting Quotes
”Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We are afraid”. “Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We will fall!” “Come to the edge.” And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire (French Poet and Philosopher)
“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Author unknown to me
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Anon
All who would win joy, must share it, happiness was born a twin.
Lord
Byron
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry
Kissinger
How
beautiful to do nothing and then rest afterwards !
Spanish Proverb
God
could not be everywhere, and therefore he made Mothers.
Jewish saying
You
no got smile on yo face, no use open shop !
Jamaican proverb
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Leonardo Da Vinci
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From “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini - (other books – “Thousand Splendid Suns” – “ Portraits”). Khaled is Afghan by birth/born 1965 – now in America working as a physician.
“When
Khaled was in infants class at school a Mullah came to teach them about
Islam – hadj – zakat – 5 daily namaz prayers – written in Arabic
– no translation – the words had to be pronounced correctly so that
God could hear better ! Drinking alcohol being a terrible sin would have
to be answered for on judgement day. Afghans
did drink alcohol – in private, bought Scotch as a medicine from a
pharmacy as medication.
When
Khaled related the Mullahs words to his father – saying he was a wealthy
businessman sinner – his father said “ You will never learn anything
of value from bearded idiots – self righteous monkeys.
They do nothing but thumb their prayer beads and recite words
written in a book they don’t even understand. God help us all if
Afghanistan ever falls into their hands.
When
Khaled said the Mullah seems nice – his father replied, “So did
Genghis Khan! His father went
on to say – no matter what the Mullah teaches – there is only one sin
- ONLY one – THEFT – every other sin is a variation of theft.
When you kill a man, you steal a life, you steal his wife’s right
to a husband, rob his children of a father – when you steal someone’s
right to the truth – when you cheat – you steal the right to fairness.
When you use knowing someone to get you employment, you steal from
somebody who has worked and earned that place and so on – there is no
act more wretched than stealing.”
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