Rumi Quotes
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
Quotes to Explore
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
