"O people who take pleasure in a life……" — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
"O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity"
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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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59 Quotes by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will…
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Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will…
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Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it…
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The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head,…
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Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It…
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Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the…
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Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow…
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Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps…
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Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.
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This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do…
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Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a…
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There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it…
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and…
— Maria Edgeworth
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To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth
— William Shakespeare
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the…
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind:…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more…
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Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it…
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