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I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun… I am the mist in the morning, The breath of evening… I am the spark in the stone, The gleam of gold in the metal… The rose and the nightingale Drunk with its fragrance. I am the chain of being, The circle of the spheres, The scale of creation, The rise and the fall. I am what is and is not… I am the soul in all.

Rumi (via marcusalldaylius)

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. (via kuanios)

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You should love for no reason.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (via italyfunds)

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You should love for no reason.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (via italyfunds)

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The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

Osm

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“Don’t try to fit me in a box… My life is not one dimensional. I’m the summer breeze and the hurricane… I’m the serene lake and the raging ocean… I’m the gentle poet and the rough warrior… I can build and I can destroy... I can romance and I can ravage... I can be wise and I can be silly... I can and WILL be everything that the length, depth, and breadth of life will allow... KNOW THIS! Your labels don’t limit me… they limit your experience of me.” ― Steve Maraboli

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I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.

Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius  (via wordsnquotes)