Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hazrat Inayat Khan

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Henry Beston

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

Henry Beston

The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.

Heber J. Grant

If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

Henry David Thoreau

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts...

Henry David Thoreau

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau

Trees indeed have hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.

Manning Marable

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Manly Hall

There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.

Manny Pacquiao

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

Mallory Ortberg

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

Mallory Ortberg

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

Malcolm X

It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up—planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need — and a lot of heart.

Malcolm X

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Malcolm X

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Malcolm Gladwell

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.