Rumi Quotes

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

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• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

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• War creates peace like hate creates love.

  

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• Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing.

  

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• What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Yourself
  • Develop
  • Admire

• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  

  Rumi
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Seek