February 2012
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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If the only prayer you ever said in your whole life was ‘Thank you,’ that would...
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Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), German philosopher, theologian, and mystic.
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You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right...
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Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to...
– Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
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The life of society moves in a circle. Only those burdened with a common...
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Kafka - The Diaries–June 12, 1914.
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وَمَنْ يَجْعَلِ الَمعْرُوفَ في غَيْرِ أَهْلِهِ ** يَكُنْ حَمْدُهُ ذَمّاً...
– (via arabicspeaks)مُعَلَّقة زهير بن أبى سُلمى
Zuhair - The Mu’allaqat.
The Mu’allaqat(“Hanged” or “Suspended”) were poetry composed by several pre-Islamic Arab poets including Imru-ul-Quais, Antar, and Zuhair. They were called the “Suspended”...
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their...
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Mark Twain
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The message of “The Winner Takes It All” is straightforward: It...
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Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur
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There are two ways to look at life. Actually, that’s not accurate; I...
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her...
– Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can...
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon And Sixpence
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is...
– Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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Maiziyada:
My Taste In Classics (2)
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In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is...
– Doris Lessing
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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary...
– Doris Lessing
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Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of...
– Helen Fisher
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