Cat Stevens Quotes

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.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

If you want to be free be free

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

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

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Say what you think; think what you mean.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

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.

Oh I can't keep it in; I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out I've got to show the world; world's got to see, See all the love; love that's in me

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows.

They have hijacked my religion.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

If you want to be you, BE YOU!

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

The harm done is often difficult to repair.

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.