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#1

“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
― Rumi

tags: persian-poetry, poetry, rumi, rumi-poetry

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#2

“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

9449 likes

#3

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and
not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms
of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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#4

“Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: books, escape, inspirational, intellectual, love, passion, reading, spiritual

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#5

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: burden-of-past, consciousness, presence

285 likes

#6

“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon.
It is also insane.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

170 likes

#7

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

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#8

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

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#9

“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”
― Hugh Prather, I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me

tags: ego, talking

160 likes

#10

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: first-love, gender-roles, last-love, love, men, men-and-women, men-mars-women-venus, relationships, women

409 likes

#11

“Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there’s space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.”
― Tammara Webber, Where You Are

tags: first-love

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#12

“Since he knew things at the beginning, maybe at the end he knew things too. That we had gone as far as chance would take us. That nothing is more sacred than youth or more hopeful than turning yourself over to someone and saying ~ I have this time, it is not a long time, but it is my best time and my best gift, and I give it to you. When I revisit my youth, I re-visit you.”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

tags: first-love, page-444

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#13

“We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I’m not convinced that it—passion—is one of those things that you have an endless amount of—like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I’m not so sure I’ll ever love like that again.”
― Laura Miller

tags: first-love, for-all-you-have-left, love, passion

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#14

“...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays

tags: first-love, first-time, love, play, tennessee-williams, youth

27 likes

#15

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

tags: love

35 likes

#16

“When a hurricane damaged my father's house, my brother rushed over with a gas grill, three coolers of beer, and an enormous Fuck-It Bucket - a plastic pail filled with jawbreakers and bite-size candy bars. ("When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.")”
― David Sedaris

tags: coping

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#17

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

tags: coping, life

417 likes

#18

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

tags: coping, depression, life

647 likes

#19

“Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul”
― George Harrison

79 likes

#20

“Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.”
― Steve Goodier

tags: adversity, boredom, cope, coping, difficuties, fear, fearful, hard-times, humor, laugh, laughing, laughter, perspective, sense-of-humor, times

62 likes

#21

“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water

tags: coping, drama, life

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#22

“Don't cry about it. Write about it.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

tags: coping, cry, emotions, life, therapy, write

12 likes

#23

“There's the parent you want and the parent you have.”
― Karen Harrington, Sure Signs of Crazy

tags: childhood, coping, reality

9 likes

#24

“No one can escape their past. The sins we've committed... and the sadness we've caused... No matter how far we run, our past remains, as ever-present as the moon in the sky. It looms in wait... for the day when we are forced to face it. But only in doing so can we truly make peace and move on in hope towards tomorrow.”
― Phoenix Wright

tags: coping, escape, hope, moving-on, past, peace, tomorrow

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#25

“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

tags: inspirational

1694 likes

#26

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

1242 likes

#27

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Rumi

1191 likes

#28

“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational, love, spiritual

789 likes

#29

“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

tags: heart, love, seperation, soul

2228 likes

#30

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
― Rumi

tags: pain

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