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Cat Stevens

"To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."

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"To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."

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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life."
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Cat Stevens
"It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice."
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"The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace."
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"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."
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"There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion."
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"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
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"They have hijacked my religion."
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"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money."
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"The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

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"Being is more important than doing."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

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