Rumi Quotes

Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• I think beauty can be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Everywhere

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Everyone
  • Terrorism
  • Hamas

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Want
  • Success
  • Personal

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Find

• Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Way
  • Best
  • Try

• This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Secret

• Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Different
  • Concentrate
  • Compete

• It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.

  

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  • Experience
  • Observation
  • Afterwards

• After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.

  

  Rumi
  • Way
  • Space
  • Joy