Rumi Quotes

Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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• I don't miss acting at all.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Acting
  • Miss

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

  

  Quintilian
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Everything

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  

  E. B. White
  • Fall
  • Act
  • Circus

• I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • Art
  • Soul

• I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• Some Saturday mornings, as soon as the mountains had bottled up the last cheerful sound of Bob and the truck, I, feeling like a cross between a boll weevil and a slut, took a large cup of hot coffee, a hot-water bottle, a cigarette and a magazine and WENT BACK TO BED. Then, from six-thirty until nine or so, I luxuriated in breaking the old mountain tradition that a decent woman is in bed only between the hours of seven pm and four am unless she is in labor or dead.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Coffee
  • Tradition
  • Truck

• Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  

  Rumi
  • Change
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  • Clever