We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. ― Rumi

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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent. — Madeleine Albright

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

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Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be! ― Kamand Kojouri

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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. ― Rumi

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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ― Rumi

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ― Rumi

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