Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Color

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Day
  • Broken
  • Stand

• I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Travel

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Military

• Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Live
  • Today

• I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Boy

• I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Boy

• How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Style

• I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Great
  • Done

• Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Life
  • Death
  • Struggle

• I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

  

  Ellen Burstyn

• Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.'

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Dad

• I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!

  

  Shakira
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Men
  • Success

• Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • America
  • India
  • Culture shock

• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• Union gives strength.

  

  Aesop

• He sido para mí, discípulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen discípulo, pero un mal maestro.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Quitness