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Back Quotes by Rumi
- Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its…
- Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
- When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back!
- The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
- I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
- Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till…
- 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…
- Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of…
- Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
- The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets.
- We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.
- The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.
- I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.
- No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.
- A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.
- It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at…
- Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
- Travel brings power and love back into your life.
- An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love.…
- The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back…
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- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore