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It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It’s a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego’s shell. True life can’t ever start, until we offer up our heart.

— Dawud Wharnsby Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

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Learning from a man who learned all he learned from another, can lead you to a safe place, but destroy your sense of wonder.

Blue Walls and The Big Sky (1995)

A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.

A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)

Hope as rich and green as the trees of an oasis.

Colours of Islam (1998)

I don’t like to belong to one religious community as I don’t want people to feel excluded from asking for my help or learning with me.

Inspiration comes from many places — experiences, places, people, books, and the work of other artists.

The Sounds of Taqwa (2006)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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