Rumi Quotes

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

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• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Experience
  • Words
  • You

• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Look
  • New

• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rule
  • Student
  • Diary

• I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wealth

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Time
  • History
  • Worst

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Great
  • Media
  • Clothes

• 'Do you love him?' Maura asked curiously.'I'd rather not,' Blue replied.'He has lots of negative qualities I can help you hone in on,' her mother offered.'I'm already aware of them. Infinitely.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Blue

• You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Time
  • Wise

• I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Song

• I'm only going to make investments with people that I'd want to spend time with anyway.

  

  Audrey MacLean
  • People
  • Time

• I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

  

  Lisi Harrison
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Focus

• I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Girl
  • Nice

• I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Believe

• The mind is everything. What you think you become.

  

  Buddha
  • Mind

• I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Real
  • Church
  • Catholic

• I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Career

• On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Military
  • Angry
  • Forgiveness

• We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.

  

  Saddam Hussein

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

  

  Rumi
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