And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.
If you love someone, when it’s the most real, the most important thing in your life, it’s not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.
I don’t base any character on a real person, and really don’t do composites either. I make them up.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The real Da’wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth’s thousand tribes.
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
The joy of life is to put out one’s power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
Many sisters complain that people don’t want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn’t request you to take it off in the first place.
How do I define success? Let me tell you, money’s pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who’ll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
I believe there’s a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.
Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.