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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

    Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

    Much of your pain is self-chosen.

    It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

    Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

    For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

    And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: pain
    81 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ramakrishna
    “Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.”
    ― Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Ramakrishna
    tags: hinduism, knowledge, spiritual
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  • #10
    “Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.
    [Trans. Purohit Swami]”
    ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
    tags: equanimity, hinduism, spiritual
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  • #11
    “A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.”
    ― Swami Bhaskarananda, The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion
    tags: hinduism, religion, spirituality
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    Ramakrishna
    “One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.”
    ― Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Ramakrishna
    tags: hinduism, spiritual
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  • #13
    “Individually we are just a drop. Together we are an ocean”
    ― Ryunosuke Satoro
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  • #14
    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: giving, helping-others
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    Haruki Murakami
    “The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: fear, growth, heart
    192 likes

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    Rick Warren
    “You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. ”
    ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
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    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
    tags: life, life-lessons
    2983 likes

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  • #18
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    “Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
    ― Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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  • #22
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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  • #23
    Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
    “Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: famous-poets, famous-quotations, grace, haiku, haikus, joy, pain, perseverance, poem-in-your-pocket-day, positive-motivation, quotes-for-national-poetry-month, spiritual-growth, spirituality, strength, world-suicide-prevention-day
    59 likes

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  • #24
    “Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
    things standing shall fall,
    but the moving ever shall stay.”
    ― Basava, The lord of the meeting rivers: Devotional poems of Basavaṇṇa
    tags: cynic, ecology, egb, ozymandias, path, quantum, shiva
    21 likes

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  • #25
    Ken MacLeod
    “Change the problem by changing your mind.”
    ― Ken MacLeod, Intrusion
    tags: problem
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  • #26
    Ken MacLeod
    “If you're interested, you'll be there.”
    ― Ken Macleod
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    Ajahn Chah
    “If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.”
    ― Ajahn Chah
    tags: meditation, zen
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  • #28
    Thiruvalluvar
    “It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,
    Which moves the world.”
    ― Tiruvalluvar, Kural
    tags: compassion, virtue
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    Thiruvalluvar
    “Those who have wisdom have all:
    Fools with all have nothing.”
    ― Tiruvalluvar, Kural
    tags: virtue, wisdom
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    Thiruvalluvar
    “Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,
    Gathers and melts.”
    ― Tiruvalluvar, Kural
    tags: wealth
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  • #31
    Thiruvalluvar
    “Reasoning with a drunkard is like
    Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
    ― Thiruvalluvar, Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations
    tags: alcohol, analogy, drowning, drunkard, dunk, reason, reasoning, simile, torch, water
    12 likes



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