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“Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic”

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Rumi, also known as Jalal al-Din Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His poetry is renowned for its profound philosophy, beautiful language, and strong emotions, and has had a profound impact on the world. more

“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Certain Can Do Deals Knowing Sick Believer Someday Sooner Or Later Points In Life

Author:Nora Ephron

“People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.”

People World Real Asks Enemy Right Now Ask Me Digital Publishing Google Predictions Amazon

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.”

Writing Might Muse

Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.”

Ifs Mind Self Lasts Emotion Self Centered Hypocritical

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!”

Critics Editors Sympathetic

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.”

Writing Fiction Adventure Frightening

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.”

Sometimes Feelings Letting Go Possession Wander Our Thoughts Thoughts And Feelings Prized Possessions Time To Let Go

Book:She

Source: She

“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.”

Doe Wise Unique Library Innocent Poetry Is Poetic Learning Experience

Book:Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro

Source: Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro

“The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.”

Mind Persons

Book:I Can Do It: How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life

Source: I Can Do It: How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life

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