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Literary Inspirational Quotes (2629)

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You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
Rumi
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
Rumi
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.
Barbara Park
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Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
Rumi
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I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.
Rumi
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.
Rumi
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
Barbara Park
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I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.
Rumi
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Rumi
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.
Rumi
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What is fruitful alone is true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people
Rumi
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Don't stray from your Heart's intent.
Rumi
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Rumi
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There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
Rumi
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