Rumi Quotes

Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

Rumi

• Try
• To Be
• Surrender
• Crumbled
• Stony

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• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Unexpected

• If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Die
  • Child
  • Losing

• Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Society
  • Political

• There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Career
  • Going
  • Go

• What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

  

  Van Morrison
  • School
  • Me
  • Myself

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Sounds
  • Bigotry
  • Incident

• And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Believe
  • War
  • I Believe

• A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • High
  • Body
  • Diet

• Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Power
  • Political
  • Rules

• Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Goals
  • Down

• The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Secret
  • Being
  • Vanity

• At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Growth
  • Company
  • Marketing

• XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Children
  • Death
  • Band

• You must remember that you're never going to be sexy for everyone. You are sexy for someone and for someone alse you are not. Being totally nude is not sexy. The art of being sexy is to suggest. To let people have fantasy.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Sexy
  • Fantasy
  • To Be

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

  

  Rumi
  • Try
  • To Be
  • Surrender