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  • #1
    Hafez
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    Hafiz

  • #2
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #3
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #4
    “A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)”
    Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide

  • #5
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #6
    “What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
    Hafiz

  • #7
    “...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...”
    John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.”
    Paulo Coelho, Like the Flowing River

  • #9
    “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
    Jack Canfield

  • #10
    Aristotle
    “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
    Aristotle

  • #11
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #12
    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    Epicurus

  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #15
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #16
    People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they
    “People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #19
    “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
    John Holmes

  • #20
    Bill Watterson
    “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
    Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

  • #21
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
    William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #25
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #26
    William S. Burroughs
    “There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
    William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #28
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    Bertolt Brecht



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