"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

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Rumi

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Spiritual Quotes

“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.”
“Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s. I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.”
“Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.”
“What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.”

Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.
“In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.”
“Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going to edit your work. It's so wide open. People just grunt and that's a song. You can kind of do anything.”
“Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.”
“Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.”

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