Limiting Desires

“I have learned to seek my happiness

by limiting my desires,

rather than attempting to satisfy them. “

 

~John Stuart Mills

Blindness

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

~Mahatma Gandhi

Courage – Straight From the Heart

“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for;

I can fight for myself, 

but, for others, I can kill.”

― Emilie Autumn

Some power is there, inside us, in our heart, that is usually unnoticed. But when it emerges to the surface it shocks not only the person before us but mostly the person we think resides inside us. That power is of love, friendship and compassion.

Moment Of Truth

That moment in your life when you need to decide between light and darkness. You may tread the path that leads to light or, if you wish, take the path that ends in darkness. 

Even in the light, one must watch one’s step to avoid stumbling;
once in the dark, it makes no difference whether one can or cannot see where one is going,
for the gloom darkens with every step till darkness becomes one’s destiny.

But sometimes in the dark, before the first misstep, one regrets the path taken and may want to turn back to that fork in the road of life where the journey began.
If one so wishes to take that path—
‘And indeed guidance is given to them who desire it.’

 The Perfect Mentor – Umera Ahmed

Who We Are

I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. 
We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose.
But wiping the surface clean doesn’t really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below.
It’s only when you really dig down deep,
go underground, that you can see who
you really are..

~What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen 

That’s self-discovery. Finding a part of us, that’s hard to find. We might try to avoid it. But pieces combines together, to makes us who we are and then we make decision of  the life that’s left.

Zikar

I have traveled a thousand miles in search of something
people call “PEACE OF HEART”
I listened to thousand songs in finding the voice
that calls my soul.
Everyday my heart does not rest, it beats hard for something
that was not there.
I had everything around me, but my own self went missing.
In the fast crowd, I am the slow traveler that’s lost or… ?

It’s true that I have no desires
For each word have left their meaning far behind
I want this desert to be mine
The rusty tools of happiness for a smile.

The Truth

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground,
it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through
will blow up everything in its way.”

~Emile Zola

Reality Of Person

‎”The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.”

– Khalil Gibran

Feelings & Action

” Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. ”

~William James

Magic In Books

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person -perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time.

~Carl Sagan

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

― G.K. Chesterton

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

~C.S. Lewis