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“Lest we forget:

It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane”
― Mirza Ghalib

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“اي روي تو رويم را چون روي قمر كرده
اجزاي مرا چشمت اصحاب نظر كرده
باد تو درختم را در رقص درآورده
ياد تو دهانم را پر شهد و شكر كرده
داني كه درخت من در رقص چرا آيد؟
اي شاخ و درختم را پر برگ و ثمر كرده
از برگ نمي‌نازد وز ميوه نمي‌يازد
اي صبر درختم را تو زير و زبر كرده”
― مولانا جلال‌الدین محمد بلخی / Mowlana Jalaledin Muhammad Rumi, دیوان كلیات شمس تبریزی

“The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”
― Lucretius

“Dedicate one's life to truth”
― Juvenal

“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”
― Hafez

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“You left ground and sky weeping,
mind and soul full of grief.

No one can take your place in existence,
or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets,
and this sadness I feel has taken from me
the taste of language, so that I cannot say
the flavor of my being apart.”
― Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu