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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• It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Function
  • Within

• 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

• Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Scared
  • Brothers
  • Egypt

• 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

• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• 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

• 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

• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Try
  • Last
  • Programmer

• I really want to be a villain.

  

  Isaac Hempstead Wright
  • Want
  • To Be
  • Villain

• 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