Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Father

• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Dream
  • Team

• I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Actor
  • Robot

• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • School

• Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Deal

• I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Money
  • Moving
  • Talent

• I am many people. Technique is always the consequence of the dominating concept.. ..with the change of concept, technique will change.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • People

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • World
  • Lost
  • Imagination

• 'What is the work of a Master?' said a solemn-faced visitor. 'To teach people to laugh,' said the Master gravely.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Work

• We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Good

• 'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'

  

  Connie Willis
  • Women
  • She

• The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Growth

• Il y a plus d'une sagesse, et toutes sont nécessaires au monde; il n'est pas mauvais qu'elles alternent.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Outsiders

• Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.

  

  Angela Merici
  • Hand
  • Desert
  • Qualities

• I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Thoughts

• The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?

  

  Bette Lord
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Reality

• We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • God
  • Soul