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#1

“some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

tags: freeze, life-quotes, live, melt, memories, poems, poetic, poetry, poetry-quotes, summer, winter, wisdom, wistful

79 likes

#2

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7866 likes

#3

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

tags: islam, religion, spirituality

3992 likes

#4

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: attraction, rumi, sufi

5840 likes

#5

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
― Rumi

1434 likes

#6

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: death-of-a-loved-one, loss, love, mothers-and-daughters, unconditional-love

139 likes

#7

“The major fear of man is the fear of death. Death is not the end of existence, death is separation. A man doesn’t stop existing because he died physically. He must exist somewhere else in another realm where he would be held accountable.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

tags: christian-life, christianity, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, eternity, eternity-quotes, inspirational-quotes

2 likes

#8

“I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: daenerys-targaryen, fierce, strong-women

302 likes

#9

“No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: becoming, brave-heart, conquer, courage, empowered-women, fearless, feminine-beauty, feminine-transition, femininity, free-spirit, goddess, growth, guidance, gut-instinct, independant-women, inner-being, inner-knowing, strength, strong-women, warrior, wild-and-free

340 likes

#10

“My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”
― Steve Goodier

tags: growth, healing, healing-the-past, hurts, past, past-and-present, resilience, scars, strength, strong, survivor, woundedness, wounds

399 likes

#11

“When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Stoic,
She lives most heroic,
smiling with ruby, moistened lips
once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”
― Roman Payne

tags: adventure, adventuress, bravery, courage, dance, dancing, dreameress, europa, exploration, explore, explorer, female, female-beauty, female-characters, female-empowerment, female-hero, female-liberation, females, feminine, femininity, feminism, freedom, girl, girl-power, girl-quotes, girls, growing, growth, happiness, imagination, imaginative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspire, life-and-living, life-change, life-philosophy, literary, living-life-to-the-fullest, loving-life, passion, passionate, passionate-life, passionate-living, revitalize, revitalizing, roman-payne, seize-the-day, self-love, self-value, self-worth, strength, the-value-of-life, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring, wild-woman, wildness, woman, woman-s-character, woman-s-strength, womanhood, women, women-s-inspirational, women-s-liberation, women-s-motivational, women-s-strength

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#12

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: compassion, empathy

2251 likes

#13

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

tags: compassionate, empathy

755 likes

#14

“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

tags: culture-identity, empathy, language

550 likes

#15

“Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, empathy, judgement

450 likes

#16

“There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: empathy, freedom, friendship, love, men, respect, women

478 likes

#17

“...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.”
― Kim Harrison

tags: empathy, kindness, understanding

386 likes

#18

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: empathy, political-advice, politics, talking, thinking

241 likes

#19

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

tags: books, history, reading

3946 likes

#20

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: beauty, birds, nature, poetry, shore, woods

5475 likes

#21

“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: happiness, life

694 likes

#22

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: being-loved, happiness, inspirational, philosophy

497 likes

#23

“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I knew that feeling of love which is the essence of the soul, for which no object is needed. And I know that blissful feeling now too. To love one's neighbours; to love one's enemies. To love everything - to Love God in all His manifestations. Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. And that was why I felt such joy when I felt that I loved that man. What happened to him? Is he alive? ...Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is the very nature of the soul. And how many people I have hated in my life. And of all people none I have loved and hated more than her.... If it were only possible for me to see her once more... once, looking into those eyes to say...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

383 likes

#24

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: self-realization

2116 likes

#25

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: eternity

707 likes

#26

“Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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