Rumi Quotes

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

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• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

  

  Gary North
  • Law
  • Jesus
  • Biblical

• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Winning
  • Hurt
  • Ability

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Best

• I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dance
  • Used
  • Ballet

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

  

  Edmund White
  • Myself
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Live
  • Real
  • Fear

• There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don't have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Intelligent

• And the course was all about bonding. People used to say, you know, what’s going to make for a good world? I said, I can’t tell you beforehand, but right before they present it I can tell you if the world’s good just by the body language. If they’re standing close to each other, the world is good.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

  

  Edmund Spenser

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • American
  • Violence
  • Pizza

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• My destructive side has grown a mile wideand I question myself again: what is it about men?

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Men
  • Question

• I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Broken

• I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Always

• It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• The way is long and dreary,The path is bleak and bare;Our feet are worn and weary,But we will not despair;More weary was Thy burden,More desolate Thy ways,O Lamb of God, who takestThe sin of the world away,Have mercy upon us.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Tired
  • Tormented