Husayn ibn Ali quotes

“When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.”
-- Husayn ibn Ali

Source : "Bihārul Anwār" by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, vol.78, p. 128,

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“I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.”
-- Husayn ibn Ali

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“A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.”

“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.”

“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

“Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.”

“Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.”