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#1

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

tags: atheism, humor, life, religion

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#2

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience,” Michelangelo”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

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#3

“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

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#4

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#6

“For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

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#7

“Love, that moves the sun and the other stars”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

tags: italian-medieval-poetry, love, sun

281 likes

#8

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#9

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#10

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

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#11

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

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#12

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#13

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2047 likes

#14

“It is impossible to change lives and remain the same.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

tags: change-lives, impossible, life-lessons, life-philosophy, remain-the-same

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#15

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

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#16

“God takes the impossible and makes it the inevitable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: christian, faith, god, impossible, inevitable, jesus, possibilities, possible, vision

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#17

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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#18

“No one is born a sinner, but since a human is a magnet for sin, as we grow, we fill our heart and soul with an immeasurable number of sins that we don’t even recognize. If, like us, God started to punish us for our sins and showed His wrath, I don’t think any of us would survive. But He is the most compassionate being, Who delays our impending punishments and overlooks the sins which we commit in our daily lives. Lies, false behavior, betrayal, breaking hearts, we commit these sins on an almost daily basis, and we never give a thought to the fact that if He starts to hold each of us accountable for our sins, then we would all be living in Hell." -- A Prayer Heeded: A Prayer Series II”
― Samreen Ahsan, A Prayer Heeded

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#19

“My Beloved

Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul”
― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

tags: belief, beloved, heart, life, moon, soul

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#20

“I will speak of love
until you go mad
and join me
in my mad worship
of love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, harmony, join, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-poems, love-quotes, lover, mad, mystic, mysticism, one-love, oneness, sufi, sufism, worship

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#21

“God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

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#22

“I will look for you in every lifetime and love you there.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, life, lifetime, love-quotes, lover, rebirth, reincarnated, reincarnation, soulmate, souls

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#23

“He is like a forbidden fruit, attracting everyone around him into the paradise of pleasure. I know the consequences of trying this fruit, but still, I am tempted to take the risk.”
― Samreen Ahsan, A Silent Prayer

tags: love-quotes

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#24

“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: angel, angels, beloved, boyfriend, destiny, dream, dreamed, engagement, existence, fate, girlfriend, husband, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kismet, kojouri, life-partner, love, loved, lover, loving, marriage, married, marry, mate, meant-to-be, need, needed, one-love, partner, poem, poetry, quote, relationship, soulmate, the-one, wife

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#25

“He is entering through the darkest passage of my heart, without even knocking at the door. A tree of forbidden fruit, walking down close to tempt me.”
― Samreen Ahsan, A Silent Prayer

tags: love-quotes

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#26

“...it is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of god.”
― dan brown, Origin

tags: justification

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#27

“From here to Jerusalem no woman has a more beautiful neck;
it was smooth and soft to the touch.
She had a bosom as white has the snow upon a branch,
when it has just fallen.
Her body as well made and svelte;
you would not have had to seek anywhere on earth to find a woman with a more beautiful body.
She had a pretty chaplet of gold embroidery. There was never a girl more elegant or better arrayed;
nor would I have described her right. Above the chaplet of gold embroidery was one of fresh roses, and in her hand she held a mirror,
and she had arranged her hair with a rich head-band.”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

tags: love, medieval-romance, romance, rose

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#28

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: contentment, cring, fables, greed, poverty, sorrow, tears, wealth

751 likes

#29

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need

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#30

“Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.... ”
― William Wordsworth

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#31

“I value the lover's
sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite
mumbling his prayers.”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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