Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself -- Rumi

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Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love -- Rumi

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I need to cry, but i can’t get anything out of my eyes.

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ―Rumi

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -- Rumi

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We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. ― Bill Russell

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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ― Rumi

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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. -- Rumi

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I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life. -- Rumi

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