Rumi Quotes

Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

Rumi

• Life
• Worry
• Do Not
• Turning
• Upside Down

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• I married beneath me, all women do.

  

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• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

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• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

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• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

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• When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

  

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• I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.

  

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• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  

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• Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

  

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• I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

  

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• A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

  

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• Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Do Not