Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
T. D. Jakes -
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
Kate Williams -
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
Madison Smartt Bell -
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz -
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
Rainn Wilson -
Writing obscures languageĀ ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
T. S. Eliot -
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand Russell -
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon -
After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
Doreen Cronin
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Back in the 1940s, people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight hours a night, and now, in the modern age, we're down to around 6.7, 6.8 hours a night.
Matthew Walker -
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Anthony Storr -
If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.
Ben Nelson -
'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
Jacqueline Woodson -
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
Wiz Khalifa -
It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!
Bruce Wilkinson
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Don't overdo it. Don't over-diet, over-exercise, overeat, overdo the makeup, and don't stress out.
Cheryl Ladd -
This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.
Peter Greenaway -
I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.
Ziggy Marley -
I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
Katharine Hepburn -
I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future. As I try to survive on 15 hours sleep a day, I have plenty of time to enjoy vivid dreams. Being completely wheel-chaired doesn't stop my mind from roaming the universe - on the contrary!
Arthur C. Clarke -
Shine like the whole universe is yours.
Rumi