Rumi Quotes

Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

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• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • May
  • Support
  • Thoughts

• I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Save

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Man
  • Find

• In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Character
  • Thoughts

• Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Acting

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • Challenge
  • Write

• I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Way
  • Me
  • Person

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Find
  • Difficult

• With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Find
  • Ability
  • DNA

• The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Attitude
  • Find
  • Somebody

• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Find
  • Need

• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Decision
  • Leaving

• If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Know
  • Find

• With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • Country
  • Guy

• It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Moving

• Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Meditation

• Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

  

  Rumi
  • Thoughts
  • Find
  • Eternity