Sham Quotes

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;if I sit in my own place of patience,what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me,is looking for me and attracting me.There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

“It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.”

“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.”

“In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness”

“The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes”

“Pilgrims from all over the world were making their way to the place deemed the pearl of the Middle East. The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis. Its buildings, like towering pillars, tested the sky’s limit. The evenly paved roads belched with the smell of new tarmac, as if a million masons woke up every morning and by hand lay asphalt one grain at a time. People of all colors, ethnicities, creed and social statuses came bearing money, knowledge or experience in order to build their legacies in the new kingdom, sprouting out of the desert. Dubai had arrived.”

“The work of fate is a mystery”

“Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.”

“Luck is the devil with a halo”