Jeries Haddad Quotes

He who laughs worst, weeps first ~ Paul Haddad

All things in life, no matter how small, have some level of significance. ~ Saleem Haddad

Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew. ~ Saleem Haddad

We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society. ~ Saleem Haddad

I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places. ~ Saleem Haddad

Smiles are commas and full stops... and few are those who still know how to put commas and full stops into their words. ~ Malek Haddad

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins. ~ Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light. ~ Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil. ~ Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad

The reusi of Thailand are similar to the vijjadharas (weizza) of Burma, the eysey of Cambodia, the yogis of Tibet, the siddhas of India, the immortals of China, the sufis of Islam, the hermits of Europe, the mystics of Christianity, and the shamans of the Americas and Africa. These groups represent the mystical (not the dogmatic or orthodox) traditions within their respective religions. ~ Bob Haddad

Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means. ~ Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad

As for the errors I make, the only punishment I acknowledge for having made them is my awareness of those errors, and having to live with it: there is, there should be, no heavier penalty on a person's soul, mind and heart. ~ Joumana Haddad

There is no such thing as forcing someone to be free. My obligation is not to my love for him but rather to what this love represents. My obligation is only to myself. Like two parallel lines running alongside each other, Taymour and I could only ever come together if one of us were to break. ~ Saleem Haddad

... I fell in love with him even more, because I realized I was not just falling in love with Taymour but also with generations of him that connect through history, traits that had been passed down from one generation to the next. I was in love with his ancestry that stretched out for centuries. ~ Saleem Haddad

If BlackHat people can monetize an opportunity (that is, convert it to money), and especially if they can scale it (that is, make money from a big mass of people), then they will do it - happily so - and even create their own sub-markets to serve that BlackHat opportunity. ~ Frederic Haddad

I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in sports or video games. How could they hold a candle to Mister Darcy's intensity, Tom Joad's ethics, Martin Eden's passion, Caleb Trask's struggle for goodness, or Edmond Dantes' cunning intellect? ~ Trisha Haddad

Looking back on my life, now that I'm an adult, I've seen so many places and met so many people that it sometimes seems there's nothing left to explore. My one regret, however, is never growing any real roots anywhere. It's the one experience I've never had: to find somewhere I belong and learn to fit in. ~ Stephanie Haddad

Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us. ~ Joumana Haddad

Don't be afraid of books, even the most dissident, seemingly 'immoral' ones. Culture is a sure bet in life, whether high, low, eclectic, pop, ancient or modern. And I am convinced that reading is one of the most important tools of liberation that any human being, and a contemporary Arab woman in particular, can exploit. I am not saying it is the ONLY tool, especially with all the new alternative - more visual, interactive and hasty - ways of knowledge, learning and growth. But how could I not be convinced of literature's power, when it has been my original emancipator? ~ Joumana Haddad

You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it. ~ ʻAbd Allāh Ibn ʻAlawī Al-Ḥaddād

The campaign of anti-Islamic slander was so successful that to this day some textbooks in European and American schools refer to Muhammad as having epilepsy, the Qur'an as being copied from Bible, Muslim armies forcing conversions on people (by the sword), and Islam as being against science and learning. All of these are quite untrue, and enlightened Western authors from Arnold Toynbee and Bertrand Russell to Yvonne Haddad and John Esposito have been dispelling these myths on book after book for decades; nevertheless, the message hasn't reached the masses, who still believe numerous myths concerning Islam. ~ Yahiya Emerick