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  • #1
    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Confucius
    “The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
    (Analects 2.11)”
    Confucius

  • #6
    Donna Quesada
    “The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.”
    Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
    Rumi

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Do you know what you are?
    You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
    You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
    This universe is not outside of you.
    Look inside yourself;
    everything that you want,
    you are already that.”
    Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”
    Rumi

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers find secret places
    inside this violent world
    where they make transactions
    with beauty.”
    Rumi

  • #15
    “You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #16
    “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #17
    “Why do you write like you're running out of time?”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #18
    “To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #19
    “Legacy. What is a Legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #20
    “Gmorning!
    You're gonna make mistakes.
    You're gonna fail.
    You're gonna get back up.
    You're gonna break hearts.
    You're gonna change minds.
    You're gonna make noise.
    You're gonna make music.
    You're gonna be late, let's GO.

    Gnight!
    You're gonna fall down.
    You're gonna be tested.
    You're gonna learn about yourself.
    You're gonna get brave.
    You're gonna take stands.
    You're gonna make waves.
    You're gonna make history.
    You're gonna need rest, REST UP.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

  • #21
    “Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the I’m a Fraud phase. You go through the I’ll Never Finish phase. And every once in a while you think, What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #22
    “Build us a bridge to where you are.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #23
    “Good Morning
    Don't wait on anyone to make your favorite thing
    Make your own favorite thing
    Go”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

  • #24
    “If art can help us grieve, can help us mourn, then lean on it.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #25
    “A big part of growing up is bringing all of yourself into a space, not just the parts of yourself that relate to the people in the room.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #26
    “I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #27
    “Change requires hope.”
    Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamillton

  • #28
    “Come on, brain, think of things. Come on, brain, think of things. Come on, brain, be so smart,”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #29
    “There are friends who say good luck and there are friends who say hold on I’m coming with you.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #30
    “Think of the blood we’ve spilled looking for the best expression of 'All men are created equal'.”
    Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamillton



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