Rumi on ignorance
“Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.”
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Like a shadow, I am and I am not.
RumiRumi There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.
RumiRumi I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
RumiRumi Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
RumiRumi Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RumiRumi There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
RumiRumi The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
RumiRumi The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
RumiRumi Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
RumiRumi Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
RumiRumi Look for the answer inside your question.
RumiRumi Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
RumiRumi I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
RumiRumi The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
RumiRumi My lips got lost on the way to the kiss – that’s how drunk I was.
RumiRumi When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico FermiEnrico Fermi Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.
NostradamusNostradamus In love as in life, nothing is really hidden, only ignored.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
Vikram SethVikram Seth What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson There is no sin greater than ignorance.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling
