Rumi Quotes

The world is a mountain. Whatever you say, it will echo it back to you. Don't say, "I sang nicely and the mountain echoed an ugly voice!" That is not possible. The human intellect is a place where hesitation and uncertainty take root. There is no way to overcome this hesitation except by falling in love.

Rumi

• World
• Mountain
• Intellect
• Hesitation
• Echo

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• Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Choose
  • Luxury

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • World
  • Best
  • Jesus

• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Everything

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Real
  • Feeling

• So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • Travel
  • See

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • World
  • Children
  • Cancer

• I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • World
  • Kiss
  • Greatest

• I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Myself
  • Thankful

• I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Ukraine

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Fear
  • Violence

• The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • World
  • Peace
  • Child

• The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love her style, and I'm fascinated by everything she wears, and I think she's a really sweet and kind person. She's cute. I like her.

  

  Alexandra Chando
  • She
  • Girl
  • Style

• Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Reality
  • Band
  • Ideas

• While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy.

  

  Douglas Lain
  • Different
  • Help
  • Hand

• Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter

  

  Kat Cole
  • Focus
  • Enough
  • Matter

• The world is a mountain. Whatever you say, it will echo it back to you. Don't say, "I sang nicely and the mountain echoed an ugly voice!" That is not possible. The human intellect is a place where hesitation and uncertainty take root. There is no way to overcome this hesitation except by falling in love.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Mountain
  • Intellect