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    Idries Shah
    “Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”
    ― Idries Shah
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    Idries Shah
    “Right time, right place, right people equals success.
    Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
    ― Idries Shah, Reflections
    tags: awareness, history, possibility, timing
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    Idries Shah
    “It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
    ― Idries Shah, The Sufis
    tags: sufi, sufism
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: inspirational
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: chaos, creativity, invention, originality, writing
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    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    ― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
    tags: inspirational
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    Mordecai Richler
    “I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.”
    ― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
    tags: human, literature, psychiatry
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    Tahir Shah
    “Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
    tags: stories-dreams, storytelling, truth
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    Tahir Shah
    “My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
    tags: culture, heritage, stories, storytelling
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    Tahir Shah
    “Stories are a communal currency of humanity.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
    tags: stories, storytelling
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    Tahir Shah
    “My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
    Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
    tags: idries-shah, in-arabian-nights, knowledge, stories, sufis, sufism, wisdom
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    Tahir Shah
    “For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
    tags: culture, stories
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    Tahir Shah
    “My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
    tags: stories, storytelling
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    Ann Rule
    “There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
    ― Ann Rule
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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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    Yasunari Kawabata
    “Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata
    tags: beauty-and-sadness
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    Bruce Chatwin
    “As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

    There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside.

    The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.”
    ― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Plato
    “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
    ― Plato, The Symposium
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
    tags: happiness, self-sacrifice
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #24
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Dios me dio una chispa de genialidad, pero la apagó en la miseria”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: edgar-allan-poe-quotes
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    Andrea Camilleri
    “Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.”
    ― Andrea Camilleri, The Snack Thief
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
    24411 likes



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