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Literary Inspirational Quotes (2629)

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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Rumi
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We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.
Rumi
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There is a window from one heart to another heart.
Rumi
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there.
Rumi
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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
Hermann Hesse
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The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.
Rumi
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.
Rumi
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
Rumi
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There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
Theodore Sturgeon
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I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing
Rumi
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Hermann Hesse
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.
Rumi
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Rumi
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
Hermann Hesse
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Rumi
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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