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#1

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

4374 likes

#2

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

tags: life, love

3755 likes

#3

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: censorship, freedom, writers-block, writing

959 likes

#4

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

tags: faith, inspiration

4250 likes

#5

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

2218 likes

#6

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

tags: bond, celaleddin, inadequacy-of-words, inner, language, mawlana, mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi, mevlana, pretext, rumi, soul, structuralism, turkey, türkiye, words

1997 likes

#7

“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
― Rumi

1095 likes

#8

“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din, مثنوی معنوی

1193 likes

#9

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”
― Rumi

848 likes

#10

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi

tags: self-discovery

1209 likes

#11

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Rumi

1192 likes

#12

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

507 likes

#13

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

1157 likes

#14

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
― Rumi

465 likes

#15

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

tags: follow-your-heart, guidance, inclination, occupations, preferences, pull

1187 likes

#16

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

948 likes

#17

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”
― Rumi

tags: poetry

165 likes

#18

“I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

153 likes

#19

“You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

152 likes

#20

“Poems are rough notations for the music we are.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

138 likes

#21

“Shine like the whole universe is yours.”
― Rumi

317 likes

#22

“Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something from your soul.

I drank water from your spring
and felt the current take me.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

119 likes

#23

“Let silence take you to the core of life.”
― Rumi

tags: life, silence

244 likes

#24

“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Jelalludin Rumi

120 likes

#25

“let's get away from
all the clever humans
who put words in our mouth
let's only say what our hearts desire.”
― Rumi

184 likes

#26

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
― Rumi

378 likes

#27

“Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night”
― rumi

80 likes

#28

“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door
is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

98 likes

#29

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
― Rumi

164 likes

#30

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

6862 likes

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