Rumi Quotes
You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.
Quotes to Explore
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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I have not thought about it, but when I die, just dance on my grave and water the plants with what you are drinking. Please do not clone me, because after a while your clone is not as bright as you are.
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You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.
