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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.”
    Rumi

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.”
    Rumi

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #7
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #13
    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #16
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
    Rumi

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
    Rumi

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
    Jalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
    Rumi

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”
    Rumi

  • #22
    Charles Baudelaire
    “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
    Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

  • #23
    Benjamin Franklin
    “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

  • #25
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #27
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation



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