Shams Tabriz Quotes

#1. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

David Mamet

#2. This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.

Anonymous

#3. Forget that voice that says you're a failure if you can't do it all yourself. Listen to the people who are saying you can for once, instead of all the ones who have told you that you can't.

Amelia C. Gormley

#4. You will learn by reading,
But you will understand with LOVE.

Rumi

#5. Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks.
"No, what?"
"Blue sky."
"You're zoomed."
"You ever eat blue sky?"
"No," I admit.
"Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.

Rodman Philbrick

#6. What?!" Tommy shouted. His face twitched

Markus Zusak

#7. Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.

Nathanael West

#8. Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

John Bunyan

#9. In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Karl Barth

#10. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

#11. Shams was the wind that would blow the scholar's turban off from Rumi's head, and turn a quiet academic into an enthusiastic lover of God.

Cihan Okuyucu

#12. The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.
(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

Idries Shah

#13. We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.

James Hillman

#14. Is the economy going to collapse if we continue down this road? Yes. Should Americans be self-reliant? Yes. Absolutely ... I think loving our neighbors is being prepared to give them food. Loving our neighbors is being prepared to protect them.

Matt Shea

#15. When asked his name, he introduced himself as Shams of Tabriz and said he was a wandering dervish searching for God high and low.

Elif Shafak

#16. You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age ... and you have your own TV show.

Chelsea Handler

#17. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.

Ban Ki-moon

#18. But her story isn't finished, and for once she's picked up a pen.

Kelsey Sutton

#19. You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.

Wayne W. Dyer

#20. The sharia is like a candle," said Shams of Tabriz. "It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?

Elif Shafak

#21. The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Thomas Jefferson