Rumi Quotes

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

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• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Yourself

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Star
  • System
  • Astronomy

• Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Change

• I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Unhappy

• If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Character
  • Innovation

• Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Doubt
  • Ignorance

• Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Hell
  • Hungry

• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Perfect

• I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Art
  • Illustration
  • Diploma

• But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Love
  • Save

• There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

  

  Alan Hirsch
  • Jesus
  • Walk
  • Side

• Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.

  

  Eunice Tietjens
  • Song
  • Friendship
  • Tears

• Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Long
  • Science

• A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

  

  Rumi
  • To Be
  • Presence
  • Lover