Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!
— Kamand KojouriGenerosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform.
— Idries ShahQ: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi.
— Idries ShahFettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.
— Idries ShahYou may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan).
— Idries ShahSaadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.
— Idries ShahAlmost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.
— Idries ShahA loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.
— Idries ShahPoor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi).
— Idries ShahOpportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
— Idries Shah