book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer
Youth
- Youth is lyrical and old age is cynical.
- A young man may be a genius like Mozart, but he is not wise. Wisdom comes with the experience of age.
- Youth is impressionable, not reasonable.
- Youth has high hopes of the world, and zeal keeps it concerned. Old age has disillusionment with the world and disinterest makes it indifferent.
- The fervor to change the world is a natural condition of a starry-eyed youth, which, if viciously twisted with anger and hatred, ends in terrorism and suicide.
- Old men give good advice, concealing the bad examples of their youth.
- No power on earth can fight unrelenting death-wish of a young person. No fortress is strong enough. All restraint is with life.
- How desirable youth is! But how erring and immature!
- Youth is an elixir of life. Everyone receives to pine for it.
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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.
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- on Philosophy
“lf you attempt to prove existence of God with cold logic, you will land him in contradictions. If you feel him warmly, he is universal love and sense of perfection.”
- on God
Rasheed A. Akhund
Book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer
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