Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.
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Without dissatisfaction, there’s no basis for a sale.
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Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
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His place was always set at the table, in case he returned from the dead without warning .
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
