Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Wyden

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

Rollo May

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Rollo May

When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects ... Love is the answer, we sing. ... our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

Rollo May

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Rollo May

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

Rollo May

When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." ... this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Rollo May

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Rollo May

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rupert Brooke

In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.

Rupert Brooke

I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

Rumi

This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.

Rumi

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Rumi

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

Rumi

Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

Rumi

What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?

Rumi

I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

Rumi

Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

Rumi

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Rumi

God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.

Rumi

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

Rumi

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Rumi

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Tom Petty

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

Tom Peters

Life is too short for non-WOW projects.

Tom Robbins

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

Tom Robbins

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

Tom Robbins

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

Tom Landry

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

Tom Lehrer

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Tom Flores

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.