Rumi Quotes

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

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• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Lord
  • Without

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Me
  • Without
  • Engagement

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Like

• Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Pretty

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Different
  • Will
  • Without

• I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Live
  • Man
  • Without

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Good
  • Me
  • Rest

• Without electricity, the air would rot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Air
  • Without
  • Electricity

• Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Stars
  • Form
  • Planets

• To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Soul
  • Sun
  • Beach

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Without

• I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Movie
  • You

• The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• But everyone in the world has a cross. Mine is mine, yours is yours: I only can make you conscious of your cross and, apart from that, you free yourself or not. This depends on you.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • World
  • Free

• All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

  

  Sappho
  • Believe
  • Night
  • Distance

• He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Guidance

• It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Trust
  • Training
  • Preparation

• People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

  

  John Ortberg
  • People
  • Bible
  • Cheer

• Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

  

  Rumi
  • Sun
  • Clouds
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