Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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Peace is its own reward.
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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.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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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.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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I hate the past - especially my own past.
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You never toot your own horn.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
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Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
