Treading the Path

Random musings: faith, quotes, treehouses, sports--the possibilities are endless.

“The pursuit of perfection is a foolish pursuit…because neither you or I will ever be individuals who will completely be perfect.”

—   Khalid Latif

“Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord, and nothing is easy if you seek it through yourself.”

—   Ibn Ata’illah

“This life isn’t perfect, for if it was, what would the next be called?”

—   Yasmin Mogahed

“We can’t blame the laws of physics when a twig snaps because we leaned on it for support.”

—   Yasmin Mogahed

“Be kind to the dreams and aspirations of others. Encourage, do not discourage.”

—   (via abdulbary)

“Until we are able to demonstrate to others that the ideas and beliefs peculiar to us are actually working for us, we need to work alongside them on the ideals that we have in common.”

—   Farid Esack

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

—   Eleanor Roosevelt

“You know what happens when someone lets go of your hand? You get it back.”

—   Dr. Webber, Grey’s Anatomy

“He wants me to be better so he can be better. And he wants to be better to help me get better. I’ll follow a man like that into any game, anywhere, any way.”

—   Tracy Porter on Peyton Manning

“Be confident with your heart and open with your mind.”

—   Tariq Ramadan

“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.”

—   Susan Sontag 

(Source: vickychou, via teachingliteracy)

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

—   E.B. White 

(Source: emotional-algebra)

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“I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.”

—   Margaret Mead

(Source: quotelibrary.info, via myquotelibrary)

“People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.”

—   Richard Rohr, This I Believe II 

(Source: emotional-algebra)