He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.
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Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.
Interpretation
Love should be free and not possessive, while hate should not lead to harm.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy balance in emotions. It warns against allowing love to turn into attachment, which can lead to possessiveness and unhealthy relationships, and cautions against letting hate escalate into destructive actions that can cause harm to oneself or others.
In practice
In a relationship seminar, one could use this quote to discuss the difference between healthy love and destructive attachment.
He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.
Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.
It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")
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