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    Omar Khayyám
    “I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
    Some letter of that After-life to spell:
    And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
    And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”
    ― Omar Khayyam
    tags: heaven-and-hell, life, persian-poetry, poetry
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    Omar Khayyám
    “Poor soul, you will never know anything
    of real importance. You will not uncover
    even one of life's secrets. Although all religions
    promise paradise, take care to create your own
    paradise here and now on earth.”
    ― Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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    Omar Khayyám
    “When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”
    ― Omar Khayyam
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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
    9445 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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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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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: joy
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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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
    “Knock, And He'll open the door
    Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
    Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
    Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
    ― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
    tags: islam, religion, spirituality
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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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
    “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: be-yourself, love, self-actualization
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
    There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
    You feel it, don't you?”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
    ― Rumi
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    “She was fierce, she was strong, she wasn’t simple. She was crazy and sometimes she barely slept. She always had something to say. She had flaws and that was ok. And when she was down, she got right back up. She was a beast in her own way, but one idea described her best.

    She was unstoppable and she took anything she wanted with a smile.”
    ― R.M. Drake
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    “she smiled at the ocean because the waves told her story”
    ― R.M. Drake
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  • #19
    “We are the manifestation of a wild dream”
    ― R. M. Drake
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  • #20
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
    tags: daring, risk, success
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  • #22
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo
    tags: political-theory, sociology
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  • #25
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: deception
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    Harriet Rubin
    “Women have always been spies.”
    ― Harriet Rubin, Princessa
    tags: first-sentence, women
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: comprehension, intellect, intelligence, knowledge, philosophy, use
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
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  • #29
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
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  • #30
    Zoroaster
    “Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.”
    ― Zoroaster
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