Bahais Quotes & Sayings

I even watched Mulholland Drive in French ... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either. — Tom Dunne

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media. — Elliott Abrams

Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization. They hope for a future where the means of economic production will be owned by all of the people instead of just a comparative handful. They feel that this minority control of production facilities is injurious to the large masses of people not only because of economic monopolies but because the political power inherent in this form of centralized economy does not augur for an ever expanding democratic way of life. — Saul Alinsky

When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing. — Sunday Adelaja

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others. — John C. Maxwell

Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent. — Christopher Hitchens

I just want that unconditional love, the kind you get with a family member. You might get lucky enough to find that unconditional love in a friend or a lover, but it's very rare. So if I ever have a kid, it'd be so that I could look in those eyes and know that this child is a piece of me and will love me the same way I love, but I think that's selfish of me. — Michelle Rodriguez

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. — Maya Angelou

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind. — Behdad Sami

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The only way an annoyance can bring you down is if you let it. — Frank Sonnenberg

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure. — Nick Rahall

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be. — Tyler Knott Gregson

The blackness tried to swallow us whole, kill us, ruin us, capture our soul — Pepper Winters