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“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
― Rumi

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Give light and people will find the way”
― Ella Baker

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.”
― Ella Baker

“When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.”
― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

“I walk: I prefer walking.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“I am going to go into this world, and I don't care if you and your narrow mind cannot be a part of it.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
― Rumi

“Hostility to theory usually means an opposition to other people’s theories and an oblivion of one’s own. One purpose of this book is to lift that repression and allow us to remember.”
― Terry Eagleton

“I don’t like that feeling, Tristan,” she addressed him, not looking away from his chest. “I want to be able to walk into a room and know, without an iota of doubt, that the man I have claimed is only mine. I know that’s not how things work in this world. I know that men and women play around with others, that loyalty is a luxury not everyone can afford. I know. I just don’t like it.”
― RuNyx ., The Reaper

“Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.”
― Aubrey Dark, His