Rumi Quotes

My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Strengths
  • Connecting

• I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Want
  • Natural
  • Straight

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Kid
  • Asthma
  • Sweater

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Thought

• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Back

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Same

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Best
  • Period

• I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • True
  • Know
  • Uniform

• I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Bad
  • Care
  • Voice

• I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Words
  • English
  • Speak

• Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Way
  • Find
  • Lose

• Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Life
  • Father
  • Death

• If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Country
  • War
  • Innocent

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Time
  • Living
  • Pains

• We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Offers

• My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Eyes