Al-Ghazali Quotes
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.
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Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
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Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!
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In relation to the subject of your letter of the 3rd inst., I have thought not a little; but I really am not prepared to counsel in the matter.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
