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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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    Virginia Woolf
    “I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
    to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
    world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
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    William James
    “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
    ― William James
    tags: connection, friendship, sea
    776 likes

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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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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: ambiguity, virtue
    5973 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true
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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
    tags: attention, eyes, intellectual, marvelous, mindfulness, seeing, strange, understanding, wonder
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  • #10
    José Ortega y Gasset
    “The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
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  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “And never have I felt so deeply
    at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
    ― Albert Camus
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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
    9447 likes

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  • #13
    M.C. Escher
    “We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”
    ― M.C. Escher
    tags: chaos, order
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  • #14
    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: beauty, everything, seeing
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  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: friendship
    5450 likes

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  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93523 likes

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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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    Confucius
    “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
    ― Confucius
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  • #19
    Sun Tzu
    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: strategy
    2451 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #23
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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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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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    ― Tagore
    tags: joy, service
    934 likes

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  • #27
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    178 likes

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  • #28
    Kahlil Gibran
    “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran Jr.
    tags: existence, life, water
    237 likes

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  • #29
    Elif Shafak
    “Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
    427 likes

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  • #30
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    9972 likes

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  • #31
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
    58031 likes



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