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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean”
    ― Jalaluddin Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-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
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: feigned-affection
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    Alan W. Watts
    “If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: trust
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    Alan W. Watts
    “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
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  • #16
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
    tags: arts, life, music, poetry
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  • #17
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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  • #18
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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  • #20
    Samael Aun Weor
    “Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.”
    ― Samael Aun Weor
    tags: discipline, success
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    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”
    ― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
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  • #22
    “Knowledge has the power to destroy fear.”
    ― Alexander James Guckenberger, 50 Shades of Alex: Fourth Edition
    tags: destroy, fear, knowledge, power, proverb, quick, saying, short, truth, wisdom
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  • #23
    “Education occurs in the mind of the willing.”
    ― Alexander James Guckenberger, 50 Shades of Alex: Fourth Edition
    tags: education, mind, philosophy, proverb, quick, saying, short, true, truth, wisdom
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