Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• I enjoy Saturday night racing.

  

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

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• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

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• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

  

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• European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

  

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• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

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• I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?

  

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• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

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• We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

  

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• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  

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• A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

  

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• No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.

  

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• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

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• Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.

  

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• Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.

  

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• I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

  

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• Thor is a god who's lived in Asgard most all his life, but I think he still has a sense of awe and wonder about the place. I want us, as readers, to have that same sense of awe whenever we see, finally see, the golden spires of Realm Eternal.

  

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• I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

  

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• God ever arithmetizes.

  

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• Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.

  

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• I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

  

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• I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Music
  • God