Vanessa Silva > Vanessa's Quotes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Rumi

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
― Rumi

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
― Rumi

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
― Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”
― Rumi

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
― Rumi

“Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”
― Rumi

“I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
― Rumi

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
― Rumi

“I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
― Rumi

“You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart”
― Rumi

“I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.”
― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

“Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
― Rumi

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
― Rumi

“Organizations can become learning networks of individuals creating value, and the role of leaders should include the stewardship of the living rather than the management of the machine.”
― Jurgen Appelo, How to Change the World: Change Management 3.0

“To some, the pandemic exposed how much work had become like adult daycare. Everyone is expected to be in at a certain time. They’re expected to stay till a certain time. And it’s best to look busy in between.”
― Russ Hill, The Great Resignation: Why Millions are Leaving Their Jobs and Who Will Win the Battle for Talent

“It is possible. It just doesn’t happen enough. Private industry—with its incredible ability to move fast and efficiently—in partnership with government, with its broad mandate, is perhaps the most powerful force we have for positive change in society.”
― Indra Nooyi, My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future

“Once and for all, we must embrace the fact that both women and men work in jobs outside their homes; that children need fantastic care; that our aging parents need tender attention; and that governments, companies, communities, and individuals need a common road map to address the massive, complex social issues involved in making life a little easier.”
― Indra Nooyi, My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future