thought provoking

[DocW]

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
-- Victor Kiam

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney Brown

[Clarity]

DocW keep it up. I love this thread, it gives me solace alhamdulillah. Your devout reader, lol.

I've got one btw:

"You focus on finding your friend. Your mother will give birth to your enemy!"
- Turkish Proverb.

[DocW]

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
-- Shigenori Kameoka

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
-- Alexi Sayle

[DocW]

THE BUZZARD:

If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8
feet and is entirely open at the top, the
bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will
be an absolute prisoner. The reason is
That a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground
with a Run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space
to run, as is its habit, It will not even
attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner
for life in a small jail with no top.


THE BAT:

The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a
remarkable nimble creature in the air,
cannot take off from a level place.
If it is placed on the floor or flat
ground, all it can do is shuffle about
helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it
reaches some slight elevation from which it can
throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it
takes off like a flash.

THE BUMBLEBEE:


A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will
be there until it dies, unless it is taken out.
It never sees the means of escape at the
top, but persists in trying to find some way out
through the sides near the bottom.. It
will seek a way where none exists, until it
completely destroys itself..

PEOPLE:


In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and
the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our
problems and frustrations, never realizing that
all we have to do is look up! That's the
answer, the escape route and the solution to any
problem! Just look up.



Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, But faith looks up!

[DocW]

"Every Saint Has a Past, Every Sinner Has a Future"....Georgia

[DocW]

A good pun is its own reword.

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call
what they do "practice"?

When everything's coming your way,
you're in the wrong lane.

Why are they called apartments,
when they're all stuck together?

Why do scientists call it research
when looking for something new?

If con is the opposite of pro,
is Congress the opposite of progress?

The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Bacteria: the only culture some people have.

I just got lost in thought…it was unfamiliar territory.

When there's a will, I want to be in it.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

The differences between theory and practice
are greater in practice than they are in theory.

Everyone has a photographic memory.
Some don't have film.

The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

I'm a kleptomanic. What can I take for it?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist

In a nuclear war, all men will be cremated equal.

I was a banker, but lost interest.

Rehab is for quitters.

Police Station toilet stolen....
Cops have nothing to go on.

I won't rise to the occasion,
but I'll slide over to it.

[Clarity]

^ Lol.

From the darkest clouds we get precious water.

From the dark mines we get valuable jewels,

And from our darkest trials come our best blessings from Allah!

[DocW]

Don't just grow up, grow better with time and grow more experienced with age, keep being passionate about whatever you do, keep trying new things, be patient and keep trying your best, the path to God is straight through will full surrender to God's commands. [Dawud Wharnsby Ali]


Taqwa, is the counsel that the Lord of Worlds gave both ancients and the latecomers. For there is no good, immediate or remote, outward or inward, but that the fear of God is the path leading to it and the means to reach it. And there is no evil, immediate or remote, outward or inward, but the fear of God is the strongest protection and most powerful defense against it, to escape its harm. How numerous are the benefactions and immense good fortunes said to depend on it by God the Formidable in His August Book. [Counsels of Religion by Imam al-Haddad]


Food for thought:
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. The glory of Islam is to conquer by forgiveness. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. He who does not forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has the need to be forgiven. The weak can never forgive, forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Mrs Iffat hasan

[DocW]

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

[DocW]

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
-- R. M. Baumgardy

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
-- Margaret Bourke-White
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
-- Lord Byron

[sweet_potatoes]

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

What does this one mean?

[DocW]

My understanding is that we cannot survive on our past achievements. They belong to the past. We have to continue to strive in "today".

[DocW]

If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?
-- Source Unknown

Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
-- Lao-Tzu


People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. The confusion in the world is that people are used and things are loved

unknown

[DocW]

Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love

-- Rose Walker

[sweet_potatoes]

My understanding is that we cannot survive on our past achievements. They belong to the past. We have to continue to strive in "today".

Oh, okay! Thanks!