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  • #1
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #2
    Danka V.
    “What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
    wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was
    what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but
    also by, as I once believed, a true friend.”
    Danka V., The Unchosen Life

  • #3
    John Irving
    “Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #4
    John Irving
    “It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.”
    John Irving, The Cider House Rules
    tags: love

  • #5
    John Irving
    “When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”
    John Irving, The Cider House Rules

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #9
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #10
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #11
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #12
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #13
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #14
    Tori Amos
    “Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
    Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

  • #15
    Paulo Coelho
    “Ester asked why people are sad.
    "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
    Rumi

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You try to be faithful
    And sometimes you're cruel.
    You are mine. Then, you leave.
    Without you, I can't cope.

    And when you take the lead,
    I become your footstep.
    Your absence leaves a void.
    Without you, I can't cope.

    You have disturbed my sleep,
    You have wrecked my image.
    You have set me apart.
    Without you, I can't cope.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “For without you, I swear, the town
    Has become like a prison to me.
    Distraction and the mountain
    And the desert, all I desire.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Love calls - everywhere and always.
    We're sky bound.
    Are you coming?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #22
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
    How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Do you know what you are?
    You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
    You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
    This universe is not outside of you.
    Look inside yourself;
    everything that you want,
    you are already that.”
    Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers find secret places
    inside this violent world
    where they make transactions
    with beauty.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I will soothe you and heal you,
    I will bring you roses.
    I too have been covered with thorns.”
    Rumi

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    Rumi

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    Rumi

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
    Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
    Jelaluddin Rumi



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