Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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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.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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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.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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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.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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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.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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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.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
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When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!
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There has been a decline in ethics and we've got to turn it around.
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I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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Shine like the whole universe is yours.
