Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
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My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
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Look at this tangle of thorns.
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Garden as though you will live forever.
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As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.
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Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.
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People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.
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Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift.
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The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
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There's no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game it there's no chance they'll lose? I do so crave to be proven wrong,. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.
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The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
