Rumi Quotes
Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I have a couture body.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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If this allows someone not to have to make the trip to Seattle, that's what we want to do is service the people of Moses Lake.
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I want my readers to be disturbed. I want them to ask, 'Could this really happen?' It is my job to think up new possibilities, to stimulate thought.
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People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.
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From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.
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The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
