Quotes about heedless (16 Quotes)



    Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.

    Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.


    We are all aware of man's poor peripheral vision in that his views are often narrow and heedless of what is going on on each side of him. Man's problem is often one of length of view, too. This poorness of perspective often produces wonderful and pathetic paradoxes men who have been given the blessings of life by the grace of God, cry that life is senseless men who have been given breath and voice by God, use the powers of speech to deny God's existence men who have been given the capacity to feel, exult so much in this gift that sensual things sublimate spiritual things and some men who see our reaching out to distant places in our solar system conclude that this special planet is a random, unplanned mutant and refuse to connect the order of physical laws (that makes such journeys into space possible) with an Orderer.


    And who is in greater error than he who calls besides Allah upon those that will not answer him till the day of resurrection and they are heedless of their call And when men are gathered together they shall be their enemies, and shall be deniers of their worshipping (them).



    Yet you it is who slay your people and turn a party from among you out of their homes, backing each other up against them unlawfully and exceeding the limits and if they should come to you, as captives you would ransom them-- while their very turning out was unlawful for you. Do you then believe in a part of the Book and disbelieve in the other What then is the re ward of such among you as do this but disgrace in the life of this world, and on the day of resurrection they shall be sent back to the most grievous chastisement, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.


    To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us areincapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense offreedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To befree is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

    Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.



    But We will this day deliver you with your body that you may be a sign to those after you, and most surely the majority of the people are heedless to Our communications.




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