Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Die
  • Will
  • Without

• In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Beginning
  • Unique
  • Perspective

• Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• 'You,' said Purity, 'have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.''But surrounded by Americans as I am,' said Cooper, 'my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Long
  • American

• It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Running
  • Moving
  • Leadership

• The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Truth

• In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Beautiful

• The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Energy

• When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

  

  Chevy Chase

• The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • House
  • Black

• Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

  

  Beeban Kidron

• At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

  

  Daniel Nathans
  • Friends
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Purpose