"You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on pleasure
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"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on love
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"The Brain is wider than the sky-."

Dickinson, Emily on mind
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on prejudice
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"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride."

Nelson, Richard A. on determination
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"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us."

Williamson, Marianne on love
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"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."

Williamson, Marianne on miracles
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on disappointments
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"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on eternity   

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

King Jr. Martin Luther on joy
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"I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."

Lewis, C. S. on joy
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"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."

May, Rollo on joy
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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on joy
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"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

Montapert, Alfred A. on joy   

"We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living."

Repound, Renee on joy   

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Sandburg, Carl on action
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"The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence."

Thomas, Edward on importance
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."

Gogh, Vincent Van on slavery
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