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  • #1
    Lauren Oliver
    “You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #2
    So many things become beautiful when you really look.
    “So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #3
    Lauren Oliver
    “I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #4
    Lauren Oliver
    “He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #5
    Lauren Oliver
    “The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #6
    Lauren Oliver
    “The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #7
    William Paul Young
    “But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.”
    WM. Paul Young

  • #8
    William Paul Young
    “Love is just the skin of knowing.”
    Wm. Paul Young

  • #9
    William Paul Young
    “Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
    Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

  • #10
    William Paul Young
    “Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.”
    Wm. Paul Young, The Shack
    tags: love

  • #11
    William Paul Young
    “If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.”
    Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

  • #12
    William Paul Young
    “Judging requires that you think yourself superior to the one you judge.”
    Wm. Paul Young

  • #13
    William Paul Young
    “Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the One who loved you enough to give it to you.”
    Wm. Paul Young

  • #14
    William Paul Young
    “[...] love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.”
    Wm. Paul Young

  • #15
    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
    Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

  • #16
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Earth's crammed with heaven,
    And every common bush afire with God,
    But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
    The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • #17
    Adrian Mitchell
    “Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.”
    Adrian Mitchell

  • #18
    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

  • #19
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

  • #20
    Ambrose Bierce
    “love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage of by removal of the patient from the influences under which he/she incurred the disorder. This disease, like Caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient.”
    Ambrose Bierce

  • #21
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
    Rumi

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    Rumi

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    Daniel Quinn
    “The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison. [...] Naturally a well-run prison must have a prison industry. I'm sure you see why."
    "Well... it helps to keep the inmates busy, I suppose. Takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives."
    "Yes. Can you name yours?"
    "Our prison industry? Not offhand. I suppose it's obvious."
    "Quite obvious, I would say."
    I gave it some thought. "Consuming the world."
    Ishmael nodded. "Got it on the first try.”
    Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

  • #30
    Daniel Quinn
    “There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.”
    Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit



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