Daily Rumi Quotes

#1. I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

Eve Ensler

#2. Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

Baltasar Gracian

#3. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI

Tim Farrington

#4. Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Adam Leith Gollner

#5. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Rumi

#6. In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success beauty-but some bad things happen as well. Sometimes, very bad things happen. Children sicken and die. People we love don't love us, can never love us.

Robert Goolrick

#7. Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth's resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.

Seth Shostak

#8. Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

Jay Parini

#9. When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

Hermann Maier

#10. Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless.

Vikrmn

#11. When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

Fatih Akin

#12. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.

Stephen King

#13. In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.

Janet Bettag

#14. Life does not stand still and if you're not thriving then you're receding, there is no other option.

Jonathan Cragle