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    Lois Lowry
    “If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: lowry
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    Lois Lowry
    “Gabe?"
    The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
    "There could be love", Jonas whispered.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: love, sleep, stirred, whispered
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    Lois Lowry
    “He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
    ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
    ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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  • #9
    “Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.”
    ― Ilona Mialik
    tags: balance, balance-of-light-and-dark, balanced-life, discipline, freedom, freedom-of-choice, insane, insanity, yin-and-yang, yin-yang
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  • #10
    Helen Keller
    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Open Door
    tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking
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    Helen Keller
    “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: character
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    Helen Keller
    “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Open Door
    tags: challenges, inspirational, life
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    Helen Keller
    “I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: inspirational
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
    tags: mindfulness, miracles
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
    tags: anger, buddhism, freedom, happiness, peace
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “My actions are my only true belongings.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
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  • #21
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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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
    9446 likes

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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
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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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
    “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
    “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
    1999 likes

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  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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



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