Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
Quotes to Explore
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
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The real comfort was to have one's sins and weaknesses not explained away but understood and shared. John's identification of himself with Michael in so much was what he needed. He found strength in it... It struck him that it can be as much by our weakness as by our virtue that we can serve each other.
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The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
