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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: desert, silence
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    A.S. Byatt
    “I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
    ― A.S. Byatt, Possession
    tags: passionate-love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: dance, inspirational
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    Martha Graham
    “Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
    ― Martha Graham
    tags: dance, dancing
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    Sorin Cerin
    “The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.”
    ― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
    tags: death, desert, life, love
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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  • #8
    Bob Marley
    “Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: peace, soul, wealth, wisdom
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    John Lennon
    “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
    ― John Lennon
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    Albert Einstein
    “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: force, peace
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    Brian Tracy
    “Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
    ― Brian Tracy, Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
    tags: attitude, educational, expectation, expectations, life, personality, positive, teaching, wisdom
    388 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems
    tags: elegance
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    Hazrat Inayat Khan
    “There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life. ”
    ― Hazrat Inayat Khan
    tags: sufism
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
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  • #15
    “When no one is looking,
    I swallow deserts and clouds
    and chew on mountains
    knowing they are sweet bones!
    When no one is looking
    and I want to kiss God,
    I just lift my own hand to my mouth.”
    ― Khwaja Shamsuddin Mohammad, The Rubaiyat of Hafiz
    tags: poetry, sufi
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  • #16
    “In riding a horse, we borrow freedom”
    ― Helen Thompson
    tags: freedom, horses, thompson
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    يوسف النبهاني
    “I am the slave of the Master of Prophets
    And my fealty to him has no beginning.

    I am a slave of his slave, and of his slave’s slave,
    And so forth endlessly,

    For I do not cease to approach the door
    Of his good pleasure among the beginners.

    I proclaim among people the teaching of his high attributes,
    And sing his praises among the poets.

    Perhaps he shall tell me: “You are a noted friend
    Of mine, a truly excellent beautifier of my tribute.”

    Yes, I would sacrifice my soul for the dust of his sanctuary.
    His favor should be that he accept my sacrifice.

    He has triumphed who ascribes himself to him!
    - Not that he needs such following,

    For he is not in need of creation at all,
    While they all need him without exception.

    He belongs to Allah alone, Whose purified servant he is,
    As his attributes and names have made manifest;

    And every single favor in creation comes from Allah
    To him, and from him to everything else.”
    ― Yusuf Nabhani
    tags: allah, endless-love, god, islam, poem, prophet-muhammad, religion
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    Vera Nazarian
    “The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

    The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

    The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

    Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

    Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

    The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

    Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: bones, contradiction, contrast, danger, dangers, deep, delve, depth, depths, desert, desolation, dig, drought, dry, dust, eco, ecology, hidden, illusion, innards, inside, inside-out, inward, membrane, microcosm, mysteries, mystery, obscure, obscured, occult, ocean, outside, plenty, profound, profundity, riches, richness, scarcity, skin, skin-deep, superficial, surface, water, within, without, world
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: emotion, feelings
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    Carrie Fisher
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
    ― Carrie Fisher
    tags: envy, jealousy, resentment, spite
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
    ― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: age, family
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: age, children, happiness
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    W.B. Yeats
    “When You Are Old"


    WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
    And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
    And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
    Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

    How many loved your moments of glad grace,
    And loved your beauty with love false or true,
    But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
    And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

    And bending down beside the glowing bars,
    Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
    And paced upon the mountains overhead
    And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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    Robert Jordan
    “Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
    ― Robert Jordan
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  • #25
    H.G. Wells
    “Our true nationality is mankind.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: nationalism, racism
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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  • #27
    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: dreaming, dreams
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: belief, dreaming, dreams, dreams-inspirational, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life-and-living, living-life, shiny, sweet
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  • #29
    “I Wish I May
    I Wish I Might
    Not Make a Fool of Myself Tonight”
    ― J. MIkayla Robinson, Music of My Soul: Rhythm of My Life
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  • #30
    Mother Teresa
    “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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