Wisdom Quote by Mollie Marti — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.”

“A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.”

“There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.”

“Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.”

“A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.”

“Your greatest path of influence is love.”

“I like places like this," he announced.”

“Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.”

“I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.”

“That king who forsakes lust, anger, bestows wealth to needy,”

“We may well have numerous failed states in the Muslim world, I’ll give you that. But what we don’t have are failed societies. That’s a phenomenon that we only see in the West. Our societies are functioning, even if our governments are not, even if we don’t have state-imposed order. We still have functioning societies, we still have moral societies. Our people are still following a moral code. Can’t say the same about the West. And it’s interesting to me that the West uses this as an insult to the Muslim world, ‘‘Oh, look you have failed states’’. First of all, in most instances, you collapsed our states. And second of all, we can still function without them. Can you?”