Rumi Quotes
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
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The precondition to freedom is security.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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I'm my best billboard.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.
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It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
