Rumi Quotes

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

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• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Good
  • Myself

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Done
  • Situation
  • Random

• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• I just want to stay professional.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Professional
  • Stay

• Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Time
  • Actions

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• 'If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People

• Joy is the best makeup.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Joy
  • Makeup

• I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Victory
  • Humble
  • Preparation

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Heart
  • May

• Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Heart
  • Me

• If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Heart
  • Summer
  • Spring

• Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Graciousness

• You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Breaking
  • Opens