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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
In the waters of purity, I melted like salt. Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor doubt remained. In the center of my heart a star has appeared and all the seven heavens have become lost in it.
Do not look at gift horse's mouth. (Never criticize or express displeasure when you receive a gift;be thankful that you have it at all.(examination of a horse's mouth reveals a lot about its age and condition)
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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.
Whoever has no patience has not wisdom.
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S. L. A. Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Throughout human history, when humans fight each other, there is a lot of posturing. Adversaries make loud noises and puff themselves up, trying to daunt the enemy. There is a lot of fleeing and submission. Ancient battles were nothing more than great shoving matches. It was not until one side turned and ran that most of the killing happened, and most of that was stabbing people in the back. All of the ancient military historians report that the vast majority of killing happened in pursuit when one side was fleeing.
I acknowledge and do not deny that you love me before I existed, and that you love me unspeakably much, as one gone mad over your creature.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux NULL
It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.
Appearance | Kill | Love |
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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Ideas are like shadows — substantial enough until we try to grasp them.
Shunryu Suzuki, also Daisetsu Teitaro or D.T. Suzuki or Suzuki-Roshi
Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.
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When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.
Fear | Kill | Men | Punishment |
Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
It saved me from ennui, he answered, yawning. Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.