A Quote by Rumi

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

Rumi

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Rumi
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September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Bartram

True art is reverent imitation of God.

Tryon Edwards

Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.

Cynthia Heimel

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Winston Churchill

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Richard Cecil

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

Valerie Jarrett

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

Reginald Farrer

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

John Green

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

William Godwin

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

Kay Redfield Jamison

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Mason Cooley

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

Arthur Hertzberg

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

Alfred North Whitehead

If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what you believe to be true internally. If you disagree, it helps clarify how you understand yourself. And maybe makes you productively question how to improve your communication skills.

Heidi Julavits

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