Mevlana Celaleddin Quotes & Sayings

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself. — Jodie Sweetin

Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos ... provides opportunities for us to enjoy God's presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God's kingdom. As a result, we shall be changed - but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself. — Marva Dawn

Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer. — Zibby Oneal

I couldn't stand being near music and not be a part of it. It was like watching the woman you love bedding down with another man. No. Not really. It was like. . . — Patrick Rothfuss

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Rumi

Reyes and I sat arm in arm in the back of the rented SUV. He seemed relieved. Happy. — Darynda Jones

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion. — Arthur Young

Whatever you are looking for, look in yourself not around. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. — Bernardo Bertolucci

A kiss means so much more when you have to fight for it. — Anthony Paull

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler. — Anne Rice

The Germans invited you to their country to work, not to mingle, and expected you to leave as soon as you were no longer needed. Adapting to their ways was like trying to embrace a hedgehog. There might be a secret tenderness, a gentle core underneath, but you couldn't pass the sharp needles to tap into it. — Elif Shafak

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. — Yogi Berra