"GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison."

-- Rumi

#Heart Quotes #Effort Quotes #Focus Quotes

“More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.”
“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”

Source : Song: Storm
“Because on that watch list, they would be like, yeah, your name - they told me like, yeah, your name matches the name of a terrorist or someone that they're watching. I was just like, what terrorist is running around with a Hebrew first name and a Muslim - Arabic last - I'm like, who's that guy?”
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”
“Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”

Source : Michael Marshall Smith (1998). “One of Us”, Bantam
“I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.”

Source : "Sherri Shepherd: 'I Was Homeless For A Little Bit' (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.
“Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.”
“There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.”

Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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