Quotes by Malaysian Authors - Page 2

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.
Tan Twan Eng
It is getting dark. In the low mists over the hills, an orange glow broods, as if the trees are on fire. Bats are flooding out from the hundreds of caves that perforate these mountainsides. I watch them plunge into the mists without any hesitation, trusting in the echoes and silences in which they fly.Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analyzing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?
Tan Twan Eng
Time — how it expands to fill the spaces you create; how it makes meagre experiences seem never-ending. Whenever he heard people talk about the ravages of time, about how it robbed and deprived, Justin always smiled; because for him, time was an accomplice, plugging the gaps and fleshing out morsels of memory so he would have something substantial to hang on to. That way, however little he had seen or felt, he would always feel as if he had more: a life far richer than the truth.
Tash Aw
Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?
Tan Twan Eng
Be Brave be Rough,Whenever you Fail, You will be Tough.
Juliana Azmi
What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?
Zen Cho
... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.
Zen Cho
Talking is nothing. Doing is something.
Hlovate
Life is full of changes. And surprises. And the inexplicable(s).
Hlovate
Islam is not dark but very bright indeed. Islam is not depressing but instead, quite uplifting and inspiring. Islam is not about censoring but instead it is about voluntary submission.
Norhafsah Hamid
I have lived, I have traveled the world, and now, like a worn-out clock, my life is winding down, the hands slowing, stepping out of the flow of time. If one steps out of time what does one have? Why, the past of course, gradually being worn away by the years as a pebble halted on a riverbed is eroded by the passage of water.
Tan Twan Eng
As truth be told, homecoming never gets old.
Hlovate
And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or uttered sentence so as not to produce a dissonance in meaning, sound and concept. Literature is called adabiyat in Islam precisely because it is seen as the keeper of civilization, the collector of teachings and statements that educate the self and society with adab such that both are elevated to the rank of the cultured man (insan adabi) and society.
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
Literature is called adabiyat in Islam precisely because it is seen as the keeper of a civilization and the collector of teachings and statements that educate the self and society with adab such that both are elevated to the rank of the cultured man (insan adabi) and society.
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in. [ref. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ...The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. W.B. Yeats
Tan Twan Eng
The woman leant forward, her eyes flashing, a smile both triumphant and tender curving her mouth."You are *my* daughter," she said. "Can there be any doubt that you will be brilliant -- audacious -- and free?"The vision disappeared. She had been so vital, so overflowing with life and energy, that her going seemed to leave the room dark.
Zen Cho
The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself?
Tan Twan Eng
Check your heart and make sure your intention steers you in the right direction.
Norhafsah Hamid
The NOW is such a magical moment that you have the time to live a magical life and have no time to have guilt of the past, worry of the future but to live now fully and unfold our magnificence with the help of Allah
Muhaya Haji Mohamad
Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind
Muhaya Haji Mohamad
Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam).
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.
Zen Cho
Women are like sparkling diamonds, if you let too many hands touch it, not only will it get dirty with too many smudges and finger prints, it will also lose its shine and lustre.
Norhafsah Hamid
Yes, Doc, I'm not feeling too well.'Which was true enough, Kwang Meng considered.He had honestly not been feeling too well since he contracted poverty, loneliness, boredom, sexual frustration and periodic coughs and colds. Not to speak of his dreary job.
Goh Poh Seng
If we want people to accept us as we are, then we should accord the same courtesy to them
Norhafsah Hamid
I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently.
Norhafsah Hamid
When God keeps away certain people from you, it may be that the person is not good for you.
Norhafsah Hamid
Everyone will grow older, but few will grow wiser.
Syed Ahmad Fathi
We sometimes fail to realise that when we pray to Allah we are in fact performing a great act of ibadah (worship). On the surface it might seem as if we are asking out of self-interest, but we are really proving the sincerity of our belief in the tauhid (Oneness) of Allah and our submission to the True God. Thus the Prophet pbuh said: "Supplication is itself the worship." (Reported by Abu Daud and al-Tirmizi, sahih.) If a servant prays the whole night to Allah, he therefore performs a great ibadah all night long.
Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin
As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.
Ed Yong
As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.
Ed Yong
We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters.
Norhafsah Hamid
Respecting requests, rules and privacy is a universal law. You break that basic etiquette 101, you're seriously flawed.
Hlovate
Live the moment. Cherish the present. Anticipate the future. Frame the yesteryear
Hlovate
Complex question can only be solved by patience.
Hlovate
Knowledge without understanding is a great loss because it is akin to having given a device without the manual on how to operate or use it.
Norhafsah Hamid
The power of knowledge is so great and forceful, if only we knew.
Norhafsah Hamid
The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived and disseminated throughout the world by Western civilization; knowledge whose nature has become problematic because it has lost its true purpose due to being unjustly conceived, and has thus brought about chaos in man's life instead of, and rather than, peace and justice; knowledge which pretends to be real but which is productive of confusion and scepticism, which has elevated doubt and conjecture to the 'scientific' rank in methodology; knowledge which has, for the first time in history, brought chaos to the Three Kingdom of Nature; the animal, vegetal and mineral.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Problems don't exist because people are religious people are religious because problems exist.
Ahmad Ammar
Islam is not man's ultimate justification to do as he pleases--it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community.
Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin
Sama juga kalau untuk contoh lelaki. Kalau baca Al - Quran hari-hari, tapi main bola nampak kepala lutut,tak cukup balik lagi.Atau kalau solat lima waktu sehari semalam tapi pegang tangan anak dara orang bukan mahram sesuka hati, tu belum cukup baik lagi.
Hlovate
Mungkin kerana manusia terlalu lemah untuk menghadapi realiti, maka kita bergantung kepada harapan.
Saharil Hasrin Sanin
You're his beacon of light. You give him a sense of direction in his life. A purpose. But is it worth it? Just being his friend? Not being able to love him the way you want to?
Claudia Tan
I was born to be a fighter. But being a fighter does not mean that I have to live in rage. When I fight, I live in my emotions. But maybe... my emotions don't have to trap me anymore.
Claudia Tan
It takes a lot of willpower to forgive someone. It takes a lot of strength to let the anger go and live without it. Forgiveness is not for the weak. It's for the strong. And I'm strong. I didn't used to be, but now I think I am.
Claudia Tan
Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.Then only LOVE remains...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
Happiness is a nothingness without completeness.
Hlovate
To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
We're on the same boat but in different cabin
Hlovate
You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.
Hlovate
When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fragrance of our praise fills the whole earth and touches the heart of God.
Dennis Ignatius
To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.
Hlovate
Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.
Osman Bakar
The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.
Osman Bakar
To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.
Osman Bakar
Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.
Osman Bakar
Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.
Osman Bakar
Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going
Hlovate