"Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit."

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Rumi

#Light Quotes #Faces Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.”
“It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.”
“My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.”
“I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.”
“I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.”
“At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, thatâ€™s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isnâ€™t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.”
“Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.”
“When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naivetÃ© is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up.”

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