"I'm interested in how a person forms her beliefs, how that happens. Beliefs of all kinds make up the animating force in each of us. Without them we would be paralyzed, lifeless - the glove without the hand."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#Belief Quotes #Kind Quotes #All Kinds Quotes

“There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.”
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”

Source : "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The comforters; The only problem; The driver's seat; Memento mori".
“"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."”

Source : "The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary", Special Supplement (p. 2047), 1966.
“China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.”

Source : To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.
“It feels good to push yourself into uncomfortable territory. There's nothing more thrilling than feeling like, "This train might just come off the rails right now, in front of these people".”
“I want to be remembered as an actor who was able to touch people with what I offered to the world. That a young person, especially a young black woman will look at me and see herself and know that she too can achieve whatever dream her heart creates.”
“My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.”
“The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.”

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