Rumi Quotes

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

Rumi

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• Yourself
• Lose
• Root

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Lost

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• I try to get in some extra carbohydrates and protein the night before and during my pre-match meal. I also eat about 200 calories right after to help rebuild my muscles.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Night
  • Try

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Play
  • Minds
  • Weak

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Myself

• When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • School
  • Reason
  • Really

• The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Work
  • Intelligent

• Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Nobody
  • Misfortune

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Know
  • Retirement

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

  

  John Shirley
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

  

  Jessamyn West
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Success

• When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Yourself
  • Lose