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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”
― Shana Abe

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
― Albert Einstein

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
― W.P. Kinsella

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.
And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?'
The lover replied, 'It is I.'
'Go hence,' returned the voice;
'there is no room within for thee and me.'
Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded,
'Who is there?'
He answered, 'It is thou.'
'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Way of the Sufi

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi

“I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

“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

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”
― Rumi

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.”
― Alexandra K.Trenfor

“کس ندانست که من میسوزم
سوختن ، هیچ نگفتن هنراست”
― پروین اعتصامی

“نهان کرد دیوانه در جیب سنگی
یکی را به سر کوفت روزی بمعبر
شد ازرنج رنجور و از درد نالان
بپیچید وگردید چون مار چنبر
دویدند جمعی پی داد خواهی
دریدند دیوانه را جامه در بر
کشیدند و بردندشان سوی قاضی
که این یک ستمدیده بود آن ستمگر
ز دیوانه وقصه ی سر شکستن
بسی یاوه گفتند هر یک به محضر
بگفتا همان سنگ بر سر زنیدش
جز این نیست بد کار را مزد وکیفر
بخندید دیوانه زان دیو رایی
که نفرین بر این قاضی و حکم و دفتر
کسی میزند لاف بسیار دانی
که دارد سری از سر من تهی تر
گر اینانند با عقل و رایان گیتی
ز دیوانگانش چه امید دیگر
نشستند وتدبیر کردند با هم
که کوبند با سنگ دیوانه را سر”
― پروین اعتصامی

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
―حافظ”
― Hafiz

“May I remember always when
Your glance in secrecy was mine,
And in my face your love was like
A visibly reflected sign.

May I remember always when
Your chiding eyes were like my death
And your sweet lips restored my life
Like Jesus’s reviving breath.

May I remember always when
We drank our wine as darkness died,
My friend and I, alone at dawn,
Though God was there too, at our side.

May I remember always when
Your face was pleasure’s flame, and my
Poor fluttering heart was like a moth
That’s singed and is about to die.”
― Hāfez, Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

“حکایت باران بی امان است
این گونه که من
دوستت می دارم
شوریده وار و پریشان
بر خزه ها و خیزاب ها
به بیراهه و راهها تاختن
بی تاب، بی قرار
دریایی جستن
و به سنگچین باغ بسته دری سر نهادن
و تو را به یاد آوردن
حکایت بارانی بی قرار است
این گونه که من دوستت می دارم”
― شمس لنگرودی