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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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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
    5846 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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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
    4363 likes

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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
    “Speak a new language
    so that the world
    will be a new world.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
    ― Jalal ad-Din Rumi
    tags: diversity, religious-freedom, tolerance
    731 likes

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    نزار قباني
    “In the summer
    I stretch out on the shore
    And think of you. Had I told the sea
    What I felt for you,
    It would have left its shores,
    Its shells,
    Its fish,
    And followed me.”
    ― Nizar Qabbani
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    نزار قباني
    “Arab children,
    Corn ears of the future,
    You will break our chains,
    Kill the opium in our heads,
    Kill the illusions.
    Arab children,
    Don't read about our suffocated generation,
    We are a hopeless case.
    We are as worthless as a water-melon rind.
    Dont read about us,
    Dont ape us,
    Dont accept us,
    Dont accept our ideas,
    We are a nation of crooks and jugglers.
    Arab children,
    Spring rain,
    Corn ears of the future,
    You are the generation
    That will overcome defeat. ”
    ― Nizar Qabbani
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    نزار قباني
    “When a man is in love
    how can he use old words?
    Should a woman
    desiring her lover
    lie down with
    grammarians and linguists?

    I said nothing
    to the woman I loved
    but gathered
    love's adjectives into a suitcase
    and fled from all languages.”
    ― Nizar Qabbani
    tags: inspirational, language, love, nizar-qabbani
    63 likes

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    Danny Wallace
    “Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.”
    ― Danny Wallace, Yes Man
    tags: learning, regret
    71 likes

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    Tariq Ali
    “How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.”
    ― Tariq Ali, The Stone Woman
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    Danny Wallace
    “The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.”
    ― Danny Wallace
    tags: optimism
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Edward W. Said
    “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
    ― Edward Said
    tags: colonialism, imperialism, israile, palestine, postcolonialism, victim
    753 likes

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    Edward W. Said
    “All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
    ― Edward Said
    tags: history, human-society, interpretation, knowledge
    284 likes

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    Ali Shariati
    “The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.”
    ― Ali Shariati
    tags: god, human, life, love, religion
    63 likes

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    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books
    3243 likes

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    Edward W. Said
    “الأرض كلها فندق.. وبيتي القدس”
    ― إدوارد سعيد
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    Edward W. Said
    “We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”
    ― Edward W. Said
    tags: palestine
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    Umberto Eco
    “Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”
    ― Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics
    tags: lies, semiotics, truth
    34 likes

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    Umberto Eco
    “Os homens nunca praticam o mal tão completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por convicção religiosa.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Il cimitero di Praga
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    Umberto Eco
    “Translation is the art of failure.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: language, translation, words
    53 likes

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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
    tags: creativity, learning, time
    266 likes

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    Gustave Flaubert
    “I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: creativity, humour, pessimistic, writing
    413 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: creativity
    234 likes

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  • #29
    Pablo Picasso
    “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
    ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
    2482 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: creativity, fantasy, imagination, inspirational
    2486 likes



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