islamicthinking:

A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, ‘How much do you think this glass weighs?’
’50 grams!’…. ’100 grams!’…… ’125 grams’ …… the students answered.
‘I really don’t know unless I weigh it,’ said the…
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islamicthinking:

There was a farmer who grew superior quality, award-winning corn in his farm. Each year, he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honours and prizes.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew his corn. The reporter discovered…
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
—Louise Erdrich (via girlwithoutwings)(Source: quote-book)
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farhaaan:
You won’t see something like this on the news in a hurry.
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The reason why I always stay out late.
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staree:
untitled by toby price on Flickr.
One day, I wanna be here.
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