Rumi Quotes

Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

Rumi

• Soul
• Worry
• Arms
• Treasures

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• I drink a lot of water.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Lot

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Well

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • People
  • Study
  • Brother

• You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Game
  • You
  • Alert

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Popular
  • Wicked

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Myself

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Attention

• I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• The world is now rapidly advancing in light, in knowledge, in power to use the infinite gifts that the Creator has hidden in nature; but hidden only to stimulate and reward our seeking. Every man can help in this grand progress,-if not by research and positive thought-power, at least by grateful acceptance and realization of what is gained. Look forward!

  

  Elisha Gray
  • World
  • Power
  • Help

• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • People

• The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Believe
  • School
  • Family

• I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on My need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see But loves the beauty that shall be.

  

  Hannah Hurnard
  • Beauty
  • Loves
  • Worthlessness

• Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Arms
  • Strike
  • Conquest

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Soul
  • Feelings
  • Laughing

• Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Worry
  • Arms