Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes
Sad Quotes by Feisal Abdul Rauf

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other.
Nor are we going to barter.
We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions
in all the countries of the world against the radicals
of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims
are very happy and they thrive in this country.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism.
And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

I have never made a threat.
I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat,
never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever,
because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

We've got to be fair.
You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground.
We've got to be just.
We've got to speak the truth.
We've got to have justice for everybody.
We're a country of justice for all, not justice for
non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

We are Americans.
We - we - we are - we are doctors.
We are investment bankers.
We are taxi drivers.
We are store keepers.
We are lawyers.
We are - we are part of the fabric of America.
And the way that America today treats its Muslims is
being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

In the Muslim world, there are many people who have
been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists.
But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle.
And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world,
which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are -
are - are living in -
in very,
very, very bad circumstances.
They cannot practice religion freely.
It is not the truth at all.
The fact is, we are practicing.
We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas

We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken

The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous

He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

Regrets are the tears of choices not made
and of good deeds left undone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau

People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard

It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous

The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins

When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seeing is not always believing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous