Rumi Quotes
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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My first vocation was dance.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.
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I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
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Dear precious Diary, I am baptizing you with my tears. I know we have to leave and that one day I will even have to leave my father and mother’s home and go into a home of my own. But ever I will take you with me.
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
