Rumi Quotes
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
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I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
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We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.
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Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living.
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
