Abdullah Yusuf Ali Quotes
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
Patrick deWitt -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
Vijay -
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V. S. Naipaul -
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
Irena Sendler
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The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.
R. Murray Schafer -
There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.
Ian Bogost -
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
Henry Ward Beecher -
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Euripides -
Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.
J. H. Wyman -
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.
Dalai Lama -
The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.
Andy Roddick -
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
Oscar Wilde -
To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali