Rumi Quotes

Advice doesn't help lovers! They're not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across.

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Environment

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Service
  • Dreams

• For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Energy
  • Now
  • Fast

• Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • America
  • Best

• A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Principle
  • Progressive

• Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Party
  • Years
  • Trump

• All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Creature
  • Evolve
  • Capacities

• I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

  

  James Wolk
  • Work

• New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.

  

  Diplo
  • Work
  • Serious

• For a date night with my girlfriend, we go to Zuma for Japanese.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Night
  • Girlfriend
  • Japanese

• You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • Why

• The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Done
  • Today
  • Night

• I want to develop a small make-up line myself. I want to combine all the things that I love and just create them the way I want them to be.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Up
  • Small

• I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • People
  • Path
  • Daughter

• Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

  

  Bill Hayden

• Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

  

  Brian Stann
  • Fear
  • Peace
  • Performance

• A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

  

  George Washington
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Mean

• I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • Never
  • Anything

• Advice doesn't help lovers! They're not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across.

  

  Rumi
  • Advice
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  • Lovers