What you desire is what YOU want, what you have is what ALLAH wants.
NOUMAN ALI KHAN
NOUMAN ALI KHAN
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Nouman Ali Khan64 quotes“What you desire is what YOU want, what you have is what ALLAH wants.”
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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