Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)
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Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
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Men in power always seem to get involved in sex scandals, but women don't even have a word for 'male bimbo.' Except maybe 'senator.
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I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
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Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.
