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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
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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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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.
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No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
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Rehearsal's mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!
