Rumi Quotes

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

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• Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Community
  • Best
  • Interest

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Stop

• I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • English
  • Start
  • Dirty

• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Unity
  • Limit
  • Nationalism

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Party

• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • May
  • Talent
  • Ability

• The movie business is a big gamble.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Big

• 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

• All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Love
  • Justice

• People want you to fail.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Country
  • Leave
  • Seriously

• Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Women
  • True

• I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Running

• Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Funny

• I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Never
  • Judge

• The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mind
  • Progress
  • Human

• Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire, And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.

  

  John Heywood
  • Fire
  • Farewell

• In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Death
  • Arts

• The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.

  

  Andrew S. Draper
  • Opportunity
  • Developing
  • Power Of God

• I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
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  • Desire