Rumi Quotes
Don't flounder in the preambles of the past Wounded with regrets; don't let autumnal Nostalgia blind you to the sounds and scents Of the present's Spring; you're a native of The pellucid moment, make it infinite beyond The curving snake of passing time and space. Learn to die in the infinitely elusive moment.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
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My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.
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Don't flounder in the preambles of the past Wounded with regrets; don't let autumnal Nostalgia blind you to the sounds and scents Of the present's Spring; you're a native of The pellucid moment, make it infinite beyond The curving snake of passing time and space. Learn to die in the infinitely elusive moment.
