Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.― Rumi

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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ― Rumi

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Travel brings power and love back into your life. ― Rumi

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It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.

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History has shown that one person's willingness to stand up for what is right can be the spark that ignites far-reaching change. ― Kamala Harris

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The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor. ― Israelmore Ayivor

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. – Mother Teresa

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You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

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I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other. — Bill Cosby

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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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