"Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house."

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Source : "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

Shams Tabrizi

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
“Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.”

Source : Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.50, Peachpit Press
“They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.”

Source : Richard Wright (1991). “Works”
“Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.”
“But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”

Source : Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs
“I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.”

Source : Source: entertainmentrealm.com
“Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.”
“I like albums where all the songs are written in one go. If you're trying to create the number-one album with the best songs ever, I get why you'd want to write for three years and pick the best ones, but for me, I'd rather hear a group of songs that are all expressing a state, or time of your life. I think it's more that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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