Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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I feel it strong in my heart and sing it and write it just because that's a part of Ben Harper, that's just a part of me, that makes me who I am.
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It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.
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Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
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Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
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The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.
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Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged
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Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
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If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.
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Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.
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Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.
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It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.
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Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
