“Mlaodikia ni mtu anayejua kwamba bustani yake ina magugu lakini anaona uvivu kwenda kuipalilia. Kinachofanya aone uvivu kwenda kuipalilia ni raha za dunia hii. Usiwe vuguvugu. Kama umeamua kuwa moto kuwa moto. Kama umeamua kuwa baridi kuwa baridi.”
“The seed of Sufism was sown in the time of Adam,
germed in the time of Noah,
budded in the time of Abraham,
began to develop in the time of Moses,
reached maturity in the time of Jesus,
produced pure wine in the time of Mohammad.”
Source: The Sufis
“Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position”
Source: Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success: Creating Prosperity out of Adversity
“The course you take determines your greatness or failure”
Source: Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success: Creating Prosperity out of Adversity
“commitment stays on, both in good and in bad, for better for worste”
Source: Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success: Creating Prosperity out of Adversity
“Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.”
Source: The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
“Are you not the same moon from my other life? he wondered, fixing on it, trying to push through the thin veil of time, listening again for the voices of the ghosts.”
Source: Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
“No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky to reach fifty years of age, and you could expect a life of discomfort and pain. Old age tires the body by thirty-five, Erasmus lamented, but half the population did not live beyond the age of twenty. There were doctors and there was medicine, but there does not seem to have been a great deal of healing. Anyone who could afford to seek a doctor's aid did so eagerly, but the doctor was as likely to maim or kill as to cure. His potions were usually noxious and sometimes fatal—but they could not have been as terrible and traumatic as the contemporary surgical methods. The surgeon and the Inquisitor differed only in their motivation: otherwise, their batteries of knives, saws, and tongs for slicing, piercing, burning, and amputating were barely distinguishable. Without any anesthetic other than strong liquor, an operation was as bad as the torments of hell.”
Source: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
“TAMBURLAINE. [to BAJAZETH] Soft sir, you must be dieted, too much eating will make you surfeit.
THERIDAMAS. So it would my lord, specially having so smal a walke, and so litle exercise.”
Source: Tamburlaine
“They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms.”
Source: Timekeeper