Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1845–1901) 19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, scholar and writer
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 299
Book I, ode ix, line 9
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1845–1901) 19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, scholar and writer
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 299
“God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist
Defence of Hindu Society (1983)
“Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
All else is up to God!”
Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem
Poem "D. Pedro", verses 11-12
Message
Original: Fiel à palavra dada e à ideia tida.
Tudo o mais é com Deus!
“Communion with God is conferred after the dervish has become alien to all else.”
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263
“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
Paulo Coelho book The Zahir
Variant: When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.
Source: The Zahir
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward. Quoted in "The Conscious Self in Emily Dickinson's Poetry" by Charles A. Anderson: American Literature, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Nov. 1959), pp. 290-308.
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)