Rumi Quotes

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

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• What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • See
  • Go

• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Die
  • Beginning
  • Hands

• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • You
  • Difference

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Free
  • Running
  • Childhood

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Selling

• I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Book

• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Unknown
  • Fame

• Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • True
  • Nature
  • Powerful

• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

  

  John Burnside
  • Pretty
  • Dark
  • Poetry

• It is so much easier for them to talk about what has been done to them—to tell a story of victimization and revenge—than to notice, feel, and put into words the reality of their internal experience.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Revenge
  • Victimization

• For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the 'Law & Order' TNT promo spot, he thought, 'Wow, my son has made it.'

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

  

  Rumi
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Give