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.
Quotes to Explore
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Doubt is really a groping ignorance.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.
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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.
