A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
Ali Ibn Abi TalibRead
The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
Interpretation
Feeding others fulfills spiritual needs just as food nourishes the body.
This quote by Ali Ibn Abi Talib emphasizes that while physical nourishment is essential for the body, true fulfillment and spiritual nourishment come from acts of kindness and generosity, particularly in helping others. It suggests that caring for others feeds our souls and enhances our own well-being and purpose in life.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one could quote this to inspire volunteers.
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It seems that only when the Ascending and the Descending are united can both be saved. And if we - if you and I - do not contribute to this union, then it is very possible that not only will we destroy the only Earth we have, we will forfeit the only heaven we might otherwise embrace.
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
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