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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
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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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
    “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bond, celaleddin, inadequacy-of-words, inner, language, mawlana, mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi, mevlana, pretext, rumi, soul, structuralism, turkey, türkiye, words
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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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
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
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    M. Fethullah Gülen
    “Criticizing and objecting to everything means an attempt to destruction. If you do not like something, try to make something better than it. Being destructive causes ruins, while being constructive brings about prosperity.”
    ― Fethullah Gulen
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
    tags: audiences, folly, fools, humor, readership, writing
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
    tags: comedy, life, tragedy
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    Robert Browning
    “A man's reach should exceed his grasp”
    ― Robert Browning
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    “إن قوما عبدوا الله رغبة فتلك عبادة التجار وإن قوما عبدوا الله رهبة فتلك عبادة العبيد وإن قوما عبدوا الله شكرا فتلك عبادة الأحرار وهي أفضل العبادة”
    ― الحسين ابن علي ابن ابي طالب
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    Pablo Neruda
    “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
    tags: love, poetry
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