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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
    Rumi

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “But listen to me. For one moment
    quit being sad. Hear blessings
    dropping their blossoms
    around you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
    Rumi

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
    Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?
    Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks.
    The Doctor: But what do I call you?
    Idris: I think you call me... Sexy?
    The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone.
    Idris: We are alone.
    The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Czesław Miłosz
    “In a room where
    people unanimously maintain
    a conspiracy of silence,
    one word of truth
    sounds like a pistol shot.”
    Czesław Miłosz

  • #12
    Czesław Miłosz
    “The purpose of poetry is to remind us
    how difficult it is to remain just one person,
    for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
    and invisible guests come in and out at will.”
    Czeslaw Milosz

  • #13
    Ansel Adams
    “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #14
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #15
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #16
    Zenna Henderson
    “The words are the words of English, but the sense is the sense of confusion.”
    Zenna Henderson, Pilgrimage: The Book of the People

  • #17
    Zenna Henderson
    “In any age when people pervert goodness, love, and obedience and set up a god small enough to fit their shrunken souls...Anything is evil,...It lies on the other side of the line you draw around what you will accept as good. Some people's lines are awfully narrow.”
    Zenna Henderson, The People: No Different Flesh

  • #18
    Diane Arbus
    “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
    Diane Arbus

  • #19
    Diane Arbus
    “My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”
    Diane Arbus



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