Bulleh Shah quotes

“Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.”
-- Bulleh Shah

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“EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING”
-- Bulleh Shah

“Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.”
-- Bulleh Shah

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“God is found by those, With kind hearts.”
-- Bulleh Shah

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“Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?”
-- Bulleh Shah

Source : Bulleh Shah, “Repeating The Name Of The Beloved”

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“Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.”
-- Bulleh Shah

#Book Quotes #Heart Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”

“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”

“As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.”

“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”

“We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.”

“The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.”

Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14

“Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33

“You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!”