Rumi Quotes
I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?
Quotes to Explore
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.
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I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?
