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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to see you.

    Know your voice.

    Recognize you when you
    first come 'round the corner.

    Sense your scent when I come
    into a room you've just left.

    Know the lift of your heel,
    the glide of your foot.

    Become familiar with the way
    you purse your lips
    then let them part,
    just the slightest bit,
    when I lean in to your space
    and kiss you.

    I want to know the joy
    of how you whisper
    "more”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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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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    E.M. Forster
    “It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
    ― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
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    E.M. Forster
    “This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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    E.M. Forster
    “Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: beauty
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    E.M. Forster
    “Only connect!”
    ― E.M. Forster, Howards End
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    E.M. Forster
    “Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”
    ― E. M. Forster, Howards End
    tags: guiding-words
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  • #10
    E.M. Forster
    “We move between two darknesses.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
    tags: mind, spirit
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    E.M. Forster
    “The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.”
    ― E.M. Forster
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    E.M. Forster
    “Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.”
    ― E.M. Forster
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
    tags: love
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #16
    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: individuality, reflection
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, lifelong-learning, philosophy, socrates
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: belief, firm, ignorance, intensity, knowledge
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: character-development
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
    ― Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: gods, humor, madness, superstition
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  • #23
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)”
    ― Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”
    ― Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: adversary, ardor, argument, changed-mind, dispute, force, open-mind, pleasure, pride, reason, victory, weakness
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  • #27
    Michel de Montaigne
    “To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."

    "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: ocean, sea
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  • #29
    William Wordsworth
    “I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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    E.M. Forster
    “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: love, poets, romance
    4467 likes



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