"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

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Rumi

#Inspirational Quotes #Positive Quotes #Health Quotes

“The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,”
“You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)”
“I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.”
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
“Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.”
“If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!”

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