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#1

“Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
― John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly

tags: advice, friends, inspirational, judgement, motivational, poetry, praise, safety, silence, true, trust, work

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#2

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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#3

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: ambiguity, virtue

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#4

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
― Junot Diaz

tags: inspirational, writers, writers-on-writing, writing

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#5

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry

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#6

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#7

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#8

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#9

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
― Pablo Neruda

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#10

“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
― Pablo Neruda

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#11

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: confidence

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#12

“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

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

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#13

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#14

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#15

“While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#16

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: attraction, rumi, sufi

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#17

“do it from the heart or not at all.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

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#18

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation

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#19

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

tags: life, self-actualization, unrealized-potential

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#20

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

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#21

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization

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#22

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

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#23

“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”
― Philip Roth

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#24

“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

tags: discretion, tact

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#25

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”
― David Sedaris

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#26

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

tags: reading, self-awareness, short-stories, writing

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#27

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

tags: learning, life-long-learning, mystery, world

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#28

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

tags: choice, love

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#29

“Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
― Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song

tags: anger, equations, imagination, poetry

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#30

“I draw because words are too unpredictable.
I draw because words are too limited.
If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning.
But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.
If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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