Loud Thinking

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People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib quotes

Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

– G. K. Chesterton

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

– Judith Guest

Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.

– Sylvia Robinson

Its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not.

– Marilyn Monroe

Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears.

– John Lennon

He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far in advance of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries may pass before he is recognized as such and intelligently followed.

Ibn Khaldun

The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations.
For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority.
Therefore the strength of the ‘Asabiya is maintained …

Ibn Khaldun

“Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.”

― Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

“The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile.”

—Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Humanitarian