Damage Quote by Rumi Download Open image “What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.” — Rumi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Damage Inspirational sufi Oysters Pearls Shells Strikes Sufi
“To be a pearl maker, your oyster needs a good strong shell to protect you from a hundred million irritants in your environment. Your… — Annie Kagan Copy Share Image
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard… — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
“THE PEARL STARTS ITS LIFE AS A SPLINTER—something unwanted like a piece of shell or shard of dirt that accidentally lodges itself in an… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
