Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

Rumi

Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

Rumi

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

Rumi

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

Rumi

When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

Rumi

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

Rumi

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

Rumi

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Rumi

My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world.

Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

Rumi

From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

Rumi

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

Rumi

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Rumi

You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

Rumi

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

Rumi

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

Rumi

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

Rumi

There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it.

Rumi

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

Rumi

One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.

Rumi

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

Rumi

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Rumi

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.

Rumi

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

Rumi

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

Tom Robbins

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

Steve Hamilton

Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.

Vanessa Paradis

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

Susan Strasberg

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

Steven Pinker

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

Steven Pinker

What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

Sue Monk Kidd

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.