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.

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• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Trouble
  • Individual
  • Last

• 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.
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Being

• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Like
  • Worst
  • Robots

• 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
  • Age

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Difficult
  • All Things
  • Rare

• 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'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Song
  • Fake
  • Hip Hop

• 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

• We Are All in the Same Boat.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Boat

• Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Soul
  • See
  • Have

• In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

  

  Moliere
  • Friends
  • Prove
  • Eat

• There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • God

• Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • Life
  • God
  • Desire

• Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.

  

  Bridget of Sweden
  • God
  • Fear
  • Creatures

• 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