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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I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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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.
