Rumi Quotes
Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
Quotes to Explore
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
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I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, - either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
