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    Osho
    “Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.”
    ― Osho, The Book of Secrets
    tags: ignorance, knowledge
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    Robert Ferrigno
    “The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.”
    ― Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
    tags: christianity, faith, islam, religion
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    Wahiduddin Khan
    “There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191)
    Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43)”
    ― Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam
    tags: islam, quran, violence, war
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Närrisch, dass jeder in seinem Falle
    Seine besondere Meinung preist!
    Wenn Islam Gott ergeben heißt,
    Im Islam leben und sterben wir alle!”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: islam, poesie
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    Wahiduddin Khan
    “...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)”
    ― Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam
    tags: aggression, islam, war
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  • #6
    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: giving, helping-others
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    Isabel Allende
    “We only have what we give.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others
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    Yunus Emre
    “To love the world is to be afflicted.”
    ― Yunus Emre
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bond, celaleddin, inadequacy-of-words, inner, language, mawlana, mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi, mevlana, pretext, rumi, soul, structuralism, turkey, türkiye, words
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
    ― Jalal ad-Din Rumi
    tags: diversity, religious-freedom, tolerance
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.”
    ― Rumi
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    Hector Berlioz
    “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."

    [Letter, November 1856]”
    ― Hector Berlioz
    tags: death, lessons, life, mortality, time
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: comfort, empathy, sadness, sympathy
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN
    tags: absence, existence, fear, hurt, love, risk
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    Dave Eggers
    “We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
    ― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    tags: advantages, ambition
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
    “Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.”
    ― Al-Ghazzali
    tags: anger, arrogance, cheating, conceit, egoism, gossiping, greed, intolerance, jihad, lust, lying, selfishness, slandering
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  • #27
    “Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumph: 'So get used to it!’
    What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!”
    ― Barbara Alice Mann
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