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#1

“Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.”
― Colin Powell

tags: optimism, strategy

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#2

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

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#3

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

tags: dance, inspirational

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#4

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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#5

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: lovers

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#6

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#7

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

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#8

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
― Rumi

tags: love

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#9

“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
― Rumi

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#10

“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
― William Carlos Williams, Paterson

tags: language, poetry, silence

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#11

“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

tags: poetry

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#12

“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
― William Carlos Williams

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#13

“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”
― William Carlos Williams, Spring and All

tags: love, poetry

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#14

“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.”
― William Carlos Williams

tags: time

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#15

“At our age the imagination
across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stand before thorns.
Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse—
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.
But we are older,
I to love
and you to be loved,
we have,
no matter how,
by our wills survived
to keep
the jeweled prize
always
at our finger tips.
We will it so
and so it is
past all accident.”
― William Carlos Williams

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#16

“Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.”
― William Carlos Williams

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#17

“The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.”
― William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939

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#18

“And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a strange bedroom--
feels the autumn
dropping its silk and linen leaves
about her ankles.
The tawdry veined body emerges
twisted upon itself
like a winter wind.”
― William Carlos Williams

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#19

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams

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#20

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, photography

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#21

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

tags: silence

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#22

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

tags: silence

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#23

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories

tags: emptiness

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#24

“We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

tags: silence

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#25

“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

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#26

“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: quiet, shy, speaking

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#27

“Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.”
― Frank McCourt

tags: images, luxuriate, memories, memory, paper, past, quiet, write, writing

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#28

“Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

tags: calming-the-mind, centre, contentment, nature, peace, peace-of-mind, quiet, self-acceptance, silence

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#29

“There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

tags: apartment, beautiful-creatures, beautiful-darkness, closeness, distance, far, sitting, size, stars, world

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#30

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― jonathan safran foer

tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude

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