#weep

Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'. ↗

— Ibn Mas'ud

#chatter #god #grief #islam #joy

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#across #been #could #cures #difference

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#both #christ #cosmic #embraces #entire

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#few #greed #many #movement #neglect

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. ↗

— John Lukacs

#course #forever #generalizations #like #matter

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ↗

— Shirley Conran

#couches #housekeeping #inspirational #rest #resting

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on. ↗

— Mary Richards

#each #endure #faith #help #helps

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. ↗

— Teddy Wilson

#concert #concert hall #get #hall #hear

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#sweep #wind

My son, you've seen the temporary fire and the eternal fire; you have reached the place past which my powers cannot see. I've brought you here through intellect and art; from now on, let your pleasure be your guide; you're past the steep and past the narrow paths. Look at the sun that shines upon your brow; look at the grasses, flowers, and the shrubs born here, spontaneously, of the earth. Among them, you can rest or walk until the coming of the glad and lovely eyes-- those eyes that weeping, sent me to your side. Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole-- to act against that will would be to err: therefore I crown and miter you over yourself ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#freedom #virgil #weeping #art