Rumi Quotes
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
Quotes to Explore
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Me.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.
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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
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When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
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We can't sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.
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I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
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I'm going to be who I am and believe in what I bring to the table every day.
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A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.
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We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
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To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
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Beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water.
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A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
