Rumi Quotes

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

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• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Speech
  • Free Speech

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Parents
  • Like
  • Poetry

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

  

  Gary William Flake
  • Change
  • Like
  • Being

• We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Water
  • Forever

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Women
  • American

• In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • World
  • Culture
  • Artistry

• Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wish
  • Name
  • I Wish

• A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Man
  • Know

• I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Character
  • Funny

• With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Great
  • Death
  • Lost

• I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Punk

• And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Father

• Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Helping

• I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • Power
  • Fire

• Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Water