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  • #1
    Christian Bobin
    “Today, my love, I am too tired to write for you. You will find in your heart a letter, several pages, full of silence. Read it slowly. The light of this day wrote it for me. In it, it si just about you and the rest coming to me each time I look to you, far away, hundreds kilometers from here.”
    Christian Bobin, L'Enchantement simple : suivi de, Le Huitième Jour De La Semaine, Le Colporteur, L'Éloignement du monde

  • #2
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #8
    C. JoyBell C.
    “I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #9
    China Miéville
    “For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.”
    China Miéville, The Scar

  • #10
    Jay-Z
    “Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.”
    Jay-Z, Decoded

  • #11
    Jim  Butcher
    “The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.”
    Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

  • #12
    Anaïs Nin
    “What I cannot love, I overlook.”
    Anais Nin

  • #13
    Karen E. Quinones Miller
    “Life it too short to deal with crazy people.”
    Karen E. Quinones Miller

  • #14
    Jack London
    “To be able to forget means sanity.”
    Jack London, The Star Rover

  • #15
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #16
    Chris Ware
    “There is absolutely no single aspect of one’s personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.”
    Chris Ware

  • #17
    C.G. Jung
    “There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #18
    A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
    “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #19
    Criss Jami
    “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

  • #20
    Criss Jami
    “True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

  • #21
    Criss Jami
    “Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

  • #22
    Doug Dillon
    “Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
    Doug Dillon

  • #23
    Carlos P. Romulo
    “I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.”
    Carlos P. Romulo

  • #24
    Carlos P. Romulo
    “For my grandchildren . . . and all children—this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child shall lie down in terror or waken to hunger, but shall know himself as a being of unique value in a safer and kindlier world.”
    Carlos P. Romulo

  • #25
    Carlos P. Romulo
    “I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance—for myself and my children and my children’s children—forever.”
    Carlos P. Romulo

  • #26
    Carlos P. Romulo
    “I am a Filipino, inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a two-fold task -- the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future.”
    Carlos P. Romulo

  • #27
    Carlos P. Romulo
    “OTHER lives may find their happiest moments infiltrated with tragedy, and their proudest touched with comedy. This had almost invariably been true of mine. My proudest hour found me, the newly elected president of the United Nations, perched atop three thick New York City telephone books given me in lieu of a cushion that I might see and be seen by the delegates below the podium.”
    Carlos P. Romulo, I Walked With Heroes

  • #28
    Abbi Glines
    “You see somethin' ya want, baby?"
    "Maybe. I'm checking things out. Seeing if I'm interested," I shot back with my own evil grin.
    "I see something I want," he drawled as he came toward me.
    "You do?"
    "Hell yeah, I do," he murmured. "I love chocolate." What? My excitement turned to confusion. His arm reached out beside me and took the piece of chocolate cake I'd brought him.”
    Abbi Glines, While It Lasts

  • #29
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “The word precipice does not exist in the dictionary of birds!”
    Mehmet Murat ildan

  • #30
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “The more you fear the precipice, the deeper the precipice will be!”
    Mehmet Murat ildan



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