Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Rumi

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

Rumi

In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

Rumi

The soul is here for its own joy.

Rumi

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

Rumi

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Rumi

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Rumi

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

Rumi

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion. The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might.

Roy H. Williams

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Rosa DeLauro

Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.

Rosalind Russell

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Rosa Parks

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Susan Polis Schutz

Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

Susan Polis Schutz

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.

I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

Suki Waterhouse

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

Suheir Hammad

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

Stuart Wilde

Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

Story Musgrave

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Storm Jameson

As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.

Storm Jameson

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

Storm Jameson

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Stewart Butterfield

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

Stewart Udall

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Solon

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Steve Irwin

I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.

Steve Jobs

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

Steve Jobs

You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

Steve Jobs

Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

Steve Jobs

It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.

Steve Jobs

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.