
“If you ask for guidance, you shall have it; and if you pursue something, you shall find it.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.51 p. 339
General Quotes
Bui Arland
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“If you ask for guidance, you shall have it; and if you pursue something, you shall find it.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.51 p. 339
General Quotes
“Ask and you shall receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive”
As quoted in Religious Thought and Life in India : An Account of the Religions of the Indian Peoples, Based on a Life's Study of Their Literature and on Personal Investigations in Their Own Country (1883) http://books.google.com/books?id=c2oAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA163&dq#PPA169,M1 by Monier Monier-Williams
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.
Context: p>Grace, honour, praise, delight,
Here sojourn day and night.
Sound bodies lined
With a good mind,
Do here pursue with might
Grace, honour, praise, delight.Here enter you, and welcome from our hearts,
All noble sparks, endowed with gallant parts.
This is the glorious place, which bravely shall
Afford wherewith to entertain you all.
Were you a thousand, here you shall not want
For anything; for what you'll ask we'll grant.
Stay here, you lively, jovial, handsome, brisk,
Gay, witty, frolic, cheerful, merry, frisk,
Spruce, jocund, courteous, furtherers of trades,
And, in a word, all worthy gentle blades.</p
“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.”
October 1842
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“Ask me, if you choose, if a Cynic shall engage in the administration of a state.”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: Ask me, if you choose, if a Cynic shall engage in the administration of a state.... Ask you if a man shall come forward in the Athenian assembly and talk about revenues and supplies, when his business is to converse with all men, Athenians, Corinthians, and Romans alike, not about supplies, not about revenue, not yet peace and war, but about Happiness and Misery, Prosperity and Adversity, Slavery and Freedom?... what greater government shall he hold than he holds already? (117).
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