Rumi Quotes

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.

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• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trouble
  • Face
  • Inside

• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Help
  • Illness
  • Universal

• A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Child
  • More

• Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Future
  • Die
  • Rich

• Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Opinion
  • Person

• The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Kind

• Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.

  

  Pablo Tusset

• Try not to miss me when I'm gone.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Miss

• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Write
  • Secret

• When the opening verses of Genesis say that we were created in the image and likeness of God, it is helpful to remember that this means we are actually created in the image and likeness of LOVE. We were created by love. We were created to receive love. We were created to reflect love. Our entire purpose for existing is to love.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • God
  • Love
  • Purpose

• When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Process
  • To Be
  • Involved

• When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Up
  • Bold

• People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Sometimes

• There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Life
  • Emptiness

• Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.

  

  Rumi
  • To Be
  • Lover
  • Let