Ameen Rihani Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Humanity, Over You

• The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Ambition, Mean

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.179, Syracuse University Press

• At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.

  Ameen Rihani

  New York, Heart, Paris

• Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Thinking, Self

• True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

  Ameen Rihani

  Home, Order, Giving

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.67, Syracuse University Press

• Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Psychology, Soul

• I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

  Ameen Rihani

  Government, Soul, Mind

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