Rumi Quotes

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

Rumi

• People
• Children
• Planet
• No One
• Grown-Up

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• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Family
  • You
  • Community

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • Stupidity

• We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Doing
  • Challenges

• Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Ambitious
  • Ninja

• I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Work
  • School
  • Done

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Think
  • Saying

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• Responsibility educates.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Education
  • Responsibility

• Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • First
  • Survival
  • Priority

• Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Money
  • Democracy

• Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Death
  • Ironic

• A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May

• That little, small voice in your mind and in your heart that makes you curious about being vegan is something you should listen to, because that’s the sound of your conscience making you be compassionate.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Small

• I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Music
  • Selfish

• I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Respect
  • Craft

• I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • New York
  • Looking Back

• Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

  

  Peter Bichsel
  • Why

• In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • People

• All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

  

  Rumi
  • People
  • Children
  • Planet