Rumi Quotes
You are the drop, and the ocean you are kindness, you are anger, you are sweetness, you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.
Quotes to Explore
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
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You are the drop, and the ocean you are kindness, you are anger, you are sweetness, you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.
