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“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Long ago, when an early galaxy began to pour light out into the surrounding darkness, no witness could have known that billions of years later some remote clumps of rock and metal, ice and organic molecules would fall together to make place called Earth; or that life would arise and thinking beings evolve who would one day capture a little of that galactic light, and try to puzzle out what had sent it on its way. And after the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.”
― Carl Sagan

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Il vaut mieux chanter en pensant à Dieu que réciter le Coran en pensant à autre chose.”
― Abû'l-Hasan Kharaqânî, Paroles d'un soufi

“La générosité universelle est une langue sans mots, une vue sans vision, un corps sans acte, une preuve sans argumentation, c'est une source qui vient de la mer et des mystères de la mer.”
― Abû'l-Hasan Kharaqânî, Paroles d'un soufi

“Le savant a pris la science, le renonçant a pris le renoncement, le dévot a pris les dévotions, et tous s'en est allés ainsi à Sa rencontre. Prends la pureté et cours à Sa rencontre car c'est Lui le plus pur.”
― Abû'l-Hasan Kharaqânî, Paroles d'un soufi

“Il existe trois étapes vers la perfection pour les hommes. la première consiste à te connaitre, comme Dieu te connait -et je ne connais personne qui ait une telle connaissance de soi- , la deuxième consiste à ce que tu sois avec Dieu et à ce qu'Il soit, et la troisième consiste à ce que tu ne sois plus et que tout soit Lui.”
― Abû'l-Hasan Kharaqânî, Paroles d'un soufi

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

“What is love? After all, it is quite simple. Love is everything which enhances, widens, and enriches our life. In its heights and in its depths. Love has as few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.”
― Franz Kafka

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.”
― Aaron Sorkin

“Society taught us how to hate. Hate taught us violence. Violence taught us regret. Regret taught us pain. Pain taught us love. Love taught us how to laugh and laughter makes every moment far more beautiful then we could ever imagine.”
― robert m drake

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Being a critical fan means that you love a famous human being,knowing fully well they are flawed and can make mistakes due to their privilege-blindness or outright ignorance (whether knowingly or unknowingly practicing misogyny,transphobia,homophobia,ableism,racism..). When they fuck up, it is your duty as a critical fan to make them better, call them out and educate them. Your job is not to create excuses and adamantly defend their mistakes because they are so fierce is your eyes.”
― jane mock

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“il ne faut pas perdre son temps à avancer des arguments de bonne foi face à des gens de mauvaise foi.”
― Hassan II, ذاكرة ملك

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“الكلمات الطيبة لا تحتاج إلى ترجمة، يكفيك أن تنظر إلى وجه قائلها لتفهم مشاعره وإن كان يحدثك بلغة تجهلها”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?”
― S.J. Watson, Before I Go to Sleep

“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land