Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Night
  • Know
  • Sunglasses

• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Technology
  • Environment

• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Women
  • Political

• I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Think
  • Clear

• Joy is like restless day; but peace divineLike quiet night;Lead me, O Lord, - till perfect Day shall shineThrough Peace to Light.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Night
  • Light
  • Peace

• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Military
  • Angry
  • Forgiveness

• You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Different
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• People who played action video games have better vision in the sort of conditions where there is not much contrast. It can make all the difference when driving at dusk, or in fog, in being able, for instance, to see a dog crossing the road in twilight.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • People
  • Action
  • Road

• I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Family
  • Job
  • Feeling

• Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Help

• I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Time
  • World
  • Writing

• You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Men
  • Real
  • Why

• Every poker player is smarter than me.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Player

• We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • Business
  • Beautiful
  • Science

• Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

  

  James Fenton
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Desire

• Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Done
  • Stones

• This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Live
  • Wonder
  • Dreams

• There's a bar in Edinburgh called 'CC Bloom's.' CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called 'Fuck-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Life
  • Character

• I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Up
  • Work
  • Believe

• He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Life
  • Purpose