Quotes About Engagement

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test? (to a driving instructor in Scotland)

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

For that kind of leaders , nothing is alien or remote.

A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.

He who has nothing to do, scatters and gathers.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

That, in brief, is the problem—criticism as the first step in a discussion stops the discussion and is therefore, generally the last step as well. It is an entirely different matter if I hear the other person first, understand what she is trying to do, then talk with her about better ways to do it.

Most of us, however, live fractured lives. We might be here, but our minds are over there; our bodies are in the present, but our minds are in the past or the future. We need to give our undivided attention to the present because this is when life is happening—right here and right now. Here and now is the only place and time we can meet each other and meet God.

Passivity breeds anxiety. To be healthy, a person needs to be having an impact on his surroundings, uplifting those about him and bringing in more light - Rabbi M.M. Schneerson

When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade that separates me from the book. I try to be involved.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

Unless love is rooted in purposeful activity, its delights are neither fulfilling nor lasting.

You never look at these flowers; therefore they become stale to you. If you would only look into them, then your reading and writing would go to the winds." The Devotee

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

he was observing something while I, evidently, was entirely immersed in being it.

He had, he said, attended every single event at the conference, even those conducted in languages he didn't understand: he felt the organisers would have been disappointed in him otherwise.

to a child, there is that fulfilment, that sense of endless interest, of 'something going on' and all-sufficing that I, for one, have lost for ever.

Everyone has these rooms if they'd only realize it. And the most important thing is to find out what a room's trouble is. Usually, it is simply neglect, physical or social.

Have you ever been married?" "Nope. I was close once." "You were engaged?" "No, but I came close to thinking about it." She didn't believe close to thinking about it counted. "What happened?" "I got a good look at her mother and ran like hell.