Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

  

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• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

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• I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
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• I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.

  

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• Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

  

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• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

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• The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

  

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• You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.

  

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• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

  

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• And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

  

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• Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!

  

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• George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

  

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• There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.

  

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• The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

  

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• I am a huge romantic at heart.

  

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• I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.

  

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• 'Carrie Diaries' was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something I wanted to work on. It was very charming, and there's a lot of heart to it. It was touching and nostalgic and relatable, and it validates so many coming-of-age issues in an open and honest way. I think it speaks to real life.

  

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• A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

  

  Jean Racine
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• I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

  

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• I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that Arthur Machen was one of those especially interested in the link between the pagan mysteries and the Christian ones. So, my experience was also a Machenesque experience.

  

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• The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.

  

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• Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

  

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  • Crime
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• The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Heart
  • God-ideal