Rumi Quotes

My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

Rumi

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• Worlds
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• Duality

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• All four majors are definitely a priority.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Priority
  • Four
  • Majors

• I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Die
  • Day

• I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Black
  • Me
  • Nice

• Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Boring

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Mom

• I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • Relationship

• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Boy
  • California
  • Typical

• A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

  

  Ted Allen
  • City
  • Friend
  • Winning

• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Business
  • Relationship

• I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • College
  • Identity

• Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Afraid
  • Shoot
  • Heights

• The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Family
  • School
  • American

• I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Childhood

• Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.

  

  Rumi
  • Broken
  • Come
  • Again

• All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Thought
  • All Things

• Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

  

  Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Generation

• There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Books

• My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

  

  Rumi
  • Away
  • Put
  • Worlds