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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: characters, dreams, touchstones
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: conformity, fashion, generation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational, life, self-acceptance
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: aspirations
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: living
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: conservation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: identity, self-knowledge, voice
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: contentment
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: fate, mindfulness
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    ― Jalalu'l-din Rumi
    tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi
    1591 likes

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    Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
    “Be melting snow.
    Wash yourself of yourself.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: self-discovery
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

    The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: hope
    417 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Within tears, find hidden laughter
    Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ”
    ― Jalaludin Rumi
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  • #30
    Brian Rathbone
    “If you wish to find yourself, you must first admit you are lost.”
    ― Brian Rathbone, Call of the Herald
    tags: inspirational, self-actualization
    46 likes



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