"I don't want learning, or dignity, or..." - Quote by Rumi
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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“Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.”
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
“Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.”
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“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
“I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.”
“Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.”
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“Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.”
“The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.”
“I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.”