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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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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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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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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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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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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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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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.
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Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
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"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"
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Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.
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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.
