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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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  • #2
    “Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.”
    ― Sumi
    tags: encouragement
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: character, honesty, integrity
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  • #5
    Ovid
    “It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”
    ― Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
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  • #6
    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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  • #7
    Christopher Logue
    “Come to the edge, he said.
    We are afraid, they said.
    Come to the edge, he said.
    They came to the edge,
    He pushed them and they flew.
    Come to the edge, Life said.
    They said: We are afraid.
    Come to the edge, Life said.
    They came. It pushed them...
    And they flew.”
    ― Christopher Logue
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  • #8
    Euripides
    “Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: death, inspirational
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  • #10
    Robert Jordan
    “Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
    tags: women
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  • #11
    David Hume
    “Stercus accidit.”
    ― David Hume
    tags: empiricism, hume, philosophy, shit-happens
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  • #12
    John Donne
    “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
    ― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
    tags: community, death, isolation, mankind
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  • #13
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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  • #14
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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  • #15
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: life-truths, reality-check
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  • #17
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #18
    William James
    “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
    ― William James
    tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #19
    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems
    tags: love
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  • #20
    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard
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  • #21
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: wish
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  • #22
    Sarah Waters
    “I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
    ― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
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  • #23
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
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  • #24
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    ― Jonathan Kellerman
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  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Was that life? Well then, once more!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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  • #27
    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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  • #28
    Clive Barker
    “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
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  • #29
    “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots
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  • #30
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
    To gain all while you give,
    To roam the roads of lands remote,
    To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
    tags: experience, life, travel
    774 likes



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