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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Wherever you will go,
    I will let you down,
    But this lullaby goes on.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: abandonment, love, lullaby, song
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: love
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    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
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    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
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-singing
    2147 likes



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