Rumi Quotes
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
Quotes to Explore
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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it does not obviate the responsibility for dealing with terrorism in their country.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
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I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
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A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
