Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.
– Idries Shah
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- The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. – Idries Shah
- Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter! – Anonymous
- An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?- Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered. – Larry Kramer
- Remember the proverb: ‘A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent. – Idries Shah
- True wisdom can never find fault or a person at fault. – Debasish Mridha
- Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found. – SA Tawks
- It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I’m not a slave, man. I just gotta sign out, say where I’m going, what time I’ll be back and then I gotta sign back in. – Ben H Winters
- Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. – Marshall McLuhan
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. – George Bernard Shaw
- My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
- Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness! – Akuku Mach Pep
- For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness. – Kaoru Kurimoto
- Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood. – Lisa Unger
- Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man. – Idries Shah
- Being able to ask for helpis not a sign of weakness,it is a sign of strength. – Human Angels
- Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate. – Debasish Mridha
- Many people think that crying is a sign of weakness, they’re wrong – it is a sign of healing. – Louise Suzanne Boyd
- Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion. – Jim George
- Laziness always wins. – Tibor Fischer
- Then say not man’s imperfect, Heav’n in fault;. Say rather, man’s as perfect as he ought. – Alexander Pope
- A man’s capacity is the same as his breadth of vision. – Idries Shah
- Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. – Idries Shah
- The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is. – Idries Shah
- To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. – Idries Shah
- A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife. – Idries Shah
- The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: ‘What do you think I am, stupid, or something? – Idries Shah
- Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others. – Idries Shah
- The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so. – Idries Shah
- Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened. – Idries Shah
- Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. – Idries Shah
- The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man-¦ therefore increase your necessity. – Idries Shah
- DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. – Idries Shah
- The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun’Nun, by aiming for ‘being as you were, where you were, before you were’. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it. – Idries Shah
- When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. – Idries Shah
- Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man – Idries Shah