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“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”

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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 have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?”

Hard Gone Sadness Please Passing Passings Altered

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”

Book Passion Reading Reading Books Literacy Illumination Book Reading Greatest Gifts Books And Reading Joy Of Reading Education And Literacy Knowledge Of The World Reading And Literacy Fluency Reading Aloud Great Reading Importance Of Reading

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”

Long Spirit Left Existence Feet Burden Nine Boards Thirty Melancholy Toms Yards Brushes Fence Hollow Buckets Gladness Sidewalk Sawyer

Author:Mark Twain

“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”

People Humor Funny Millions Like You China One In A Million

Author:Bill Gates

“It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.”

Fall Weakness Falling In Love

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“This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.”