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Literary Inspirational Quotes (2629)

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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me. My body is in Love with the soul and the soul is in Love with my body. I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a lover.
Rumi
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.
Rumi
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Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
Rumi
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You're quite right there, he said. I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.
Hermann Hesse
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When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.
Rumi
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
Hermann Hesse
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.
Rumi
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That. The road that leads to the City is endless Go without head and feet and you'll already be there. What else could you be? - you are That.
Rumi
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!
Rumi
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