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Literary Inspirational Quotes (2629)

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Architecture is crystallized music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What you are seeking is also seeking you.
Rumi
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Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.
Rumi
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
Rumi
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There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.
Rumi
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
Rumi
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
Rumi
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.
Rumi
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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
Rumi
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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