“You do not so act as to avoid Hell and enter Heaven.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 27
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Ibrahim ibn Adham4
ascetic Sufi saint 718–776Related quotes
“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.
As quoted in Borges Verbal (1999) edited by Pilar Bravo and Mario Paoletti, p. 156
“A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 4, Style, p. 21.
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
Melinda M. Snodgrass (1951) American writer
Source: Queen's Gambit Declined (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 21)
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
