Bulleh Shah Quotes

Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

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• My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Remember
  • Teacher
  • Name

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Beloved
  • You Are
  • Be Hated

• He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Beloved
  • Absorbed
  • Purified

• The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Inspiration
  • Being
  • Beloved

• Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

  

  Kabir
  • Friend
  • Lord
  • Beloved

• Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Beloved

• As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

  

  Plato
  • Lead
  • Lovers
  • Beloved

• If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Remember
  • Sweet
  • Lovers

• I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Night
  • Lovers

• Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Eyes
  • Expect
  • Beloved

• I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Loved
  • Beloved

• I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Rich
  • Beloved
  • Don't Want

• Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Treated

• This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fear
  • Blessed
  • Beloved

• The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

  

  Moliere
  • Long
  • Absence
  • Beloved

• Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Country
  • Grows
  • Beloved

• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Stuck
  • Definitions
  • Boxes

• Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.

  

  Choa Kok Sui
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Teacher

• We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Present
  • Listen
  • Beloved

• Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Friend

• Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.

  

  Wallace Olins, CBE
  • Popular
  • Significant
  • Brands

• There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Together
  • Words
  • Person

• Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

  

  Bulleh Shah
  • Beloved