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#1

“People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
― Rumi

1032 likes

#2

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

tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation

5275 likes

#3

“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din, مثنوی معنوی

1194 likes

#4

“Knowledge that is acquired
is not like this. Those who have it worry if
audiences like it or not.
It's a bait for popularity.
Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul...
The only real customer is God.
Chew quietly
your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay
playfully childish.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: knowledge, wisdom

67 likes

#5

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

4276 likes

#6

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

8527 likes

#7

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise

4140 likes

#8

“The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.”
― Jonathan Antin

tags: dating-advice, inspirational, love

551 likes

#9

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

1262 likes

#10

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
― Nietzsche

566 likes

#11

“Only sick music makes money today.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

268 likes

#12

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2802 likes

#13

“He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

tags: choice, fate, luck

14 likes

#14

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

4521 likes

#15

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
― Rumi

965 likes

#16

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

627 likes

#17

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: inspirational

744 likes

#18

“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
― Ayn Rand

446 likes

#19

“Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

260 likes

#20

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: life

352 likes

#21

“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

171 likes

#22

“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

592 likes

#23

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: friends, humor, jail

10180 likes

#24

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
― Ovid

84 likes

#25

“Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.”
― Ovid

75 likes

#26

“For such a career I lacked both endurance and inclination:
the stress of ambition left me cold,
while the Muse, the creative spirit, was forever urging on me
that haven of leisure to which I'd always leaned.
The poets of those days I cultivated and cherished:
for me, bards were so many gods.”
― Ovid, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

17 likes

#27

“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!”
― Hermann Hesse

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