Rumi Quotes

If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

Rumi

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• You should seek approval from yourself.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Yourself
  • Seek
  • Approval

• I seek solutions, not battles.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Solutions
  • Seek
  • Battles

• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Very

• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Seek

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Heart
  • Joy

• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Long
  • Death
  • Joy

• You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Work
  • Why
  • Joy

• 'In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.'

  

  Albert Camus
  • Time
  • Live
  • Earth

• In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Important
  • Hate

• As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

  

  Billy Williams
  • Culture
  • Joy
  • Baseball

• There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

  

  Jean Paul
  • World
  • Joy
  • Leaving

• I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Time
  • Joy

• I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Joy

• Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

  

  Bliss Carman
  • Art
  • Joy

• This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Pride

• When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

  

  Lynn Johnston
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Problem
  • Despair
  • Terrorism

• It's time to have a new administration so that we have a fresh energy policy and we don't have this problem.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Problem

• If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Heaven
  • Sinners
  • Answered

• I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

  

  Frank Carlucci
  • Action

• If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

  

  Rumi
  • Joy
  • Despair
  • Seek