Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

Abdu'l-Bahá

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• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Go

• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Family
  • Know

• Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Music
  • Literature

• If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Know
  • Rap

• Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Fiction

• Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • God
  • You
  • Like

• The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Abstraction
  • Apparatus

• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Man
  • Best
  • Railroad

• 'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • She
  • Proud

• A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

  

  Jay Parini
  • God
  • Long
  • Running

• I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• I chose my own path because that was the only way.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Path

• In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Work
  • Children
  • Hope

• Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Good
  • Fall

• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Life
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • May
  • Truth

• Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Consciousness
  • Runs
  • Digs

• It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

  

  Abdu'l-Bahá
  • Spiritual
  • Laugh
  • Relaxation