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“The Russian soul is a dark place.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.”
― Dostoevski Fiordor, Идиот

“Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
― Rumi