Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which is not just; we shall never again say that anything is unjust. This is the point the wise reach, and they call it the culmination of wisdom.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

I'm an emotional fighter.

Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.

The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.