Rumi Quotes

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

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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

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Weird
  • Songs
  • Stuff

• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Bad
  • Turn
  • Habits

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Rich
  • Class
  • Luxury

• You never want to see a guy struggle. And we've all struggled. It's part of the game.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Want

• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Myself

• I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Fearless

• You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Politics

• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

  

  Saadi
  • Together
  • Sad
  • Rose

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Fly

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.

  

  Jack Vance
  • May
  • High

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido me voy.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Time
  • Patriotic

• But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the Lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.

  

  Frank Pittman
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Competition

• Roll on, thou ball, roll on!

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Balls

• Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa I keep singing them sad sad songs, y'all. Sad songs is all I know. I keep singing them sad sad songs, y'all. Sad songs is all I know. It has a sweet melody tonightAnybody can sing it any old time. What's in your heart puts you in a groove And when you sing this song, It'll make you're whole body move.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Song

• Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Find
  • Sweetness