Rumi Quotes

What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Education
  • Connection
  • Healthy

• My witness is the empty sky.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Witness

• I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Choices
  • Tears
  • Product

• In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Control
  • First
  • Standards

• It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Popular

• When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Skateboarding

• Who can rest until the moment of action?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Action
  • Rest
  • Moment

• To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.

  

  Kevin Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Sex
  • Honest
  • Wait

• In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

  

  Curt Sachs
  • Europe
  • Illustrateted
  • Dances

• Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Everyday
  • Objects

• The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Director

• Some things you never forget.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Never
  • Things
  • Forget

• Even mistakes can be wonderful.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Mistakes
  • Wonderful

• Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.

  

  Christian Burns
  • Faith
  • Best
  • Breathe

• My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

  

  Jonas Gahr Store
  • Children
  • Government
  • Care

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Religion
  • Himself
  • Man's

• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Love
  • Science

• My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Singing

• What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".

  

  Rumi
  • Himself
  • Criticizing
  • Praising