Some may despise you because you fail them; others because they envy you.
You cannot serve until you begin to enjoy suffering.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
Those who criticize you acknowledge that you are too important for them to ignore you. Empathize, rather than hate them!
Scarcely a day passes when something doesn’t pinch me with this realization: What a goddamn idiot I must have been to make this mistake so far, or to not have known this, or that, until now. My, my, we don’t ever cease to learn.
ISIS came, ISIS wreaked & now ISIS is on the verge of extinction. Recall one benefit that accrued to Muslims because of ISIS.
If you are reading this you can’t possibly complain: mobile phone, internet, English, time to read, friends…Count blessings!
Truth: awesome, painful element of our reason. Naturally, most of us cannot stand it.
Those that don’t ask uncomfortable questions are faced with uncomfortable situations.
Human suffering doesn’t count for nature. Do we count the ants we trample upon?