"Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person."

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Robert Bly

#Library Quotes #Persons Quotes

“The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.”
“If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.”
“Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.”
“More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.”
“When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.”

Source : "A Talk With Lowell Bergman". FRONTLINE Interview, www.pbs.org. 1999.
“I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.”
“If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.”
“I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.”

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