Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Happiness lies in your own hand

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

I know that when you take care of yourself and are happy and healthy, you are better for those around you and your environment.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.