Rumi Quotes

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Rumi

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• Truth
• Mirror
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• Piece

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  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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  • Father
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• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Like
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• I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Work
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• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Difficult
  • All Things
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• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Results
  • Arrive

• I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Don't write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, we're the better club.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Game

• That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People

• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Forever
  • Service

• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • World
  • Lost
  • Imagination

• It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Strong
  • Passion

• Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Done

• 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.

  

  Bono U2
  • Justice
  • Equality
  • Charity

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• Law is order, and good law is good order.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Law
  • Order

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Up
  • American

• These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Gay

• One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Control
  • System
  • Structure

• I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • Character
  • War

• Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• 'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Good
  • God
  • Fun

• The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Mirror