Rumi Quotes

There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

  

  H. C. Bailey
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Higher

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • New
  • Run

• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • End
  • Fruit

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

  

  Vijay
  • Film
  • Big
  • Parcel

• Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Happened
  • Graduation

• I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Time
  • Actions

• I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Popular

• If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Up

• It took me a long time to understand my water lilies.. .I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day.. .And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Suffering

• Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Writing

• The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Star
  • Fans

• If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Mind
  • Catholic
  • Faces

• In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to regain it again and again. It's like a circle. In children's hearts and souls when they're born into the world, nature already exists deep inside them. So what I want to do in my work is tap into their souls

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • World
  • Trying
  • Heart

• There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Hell