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Quotes by Persian Authors

"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."
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Rumi
"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."
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"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."
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Avicenna
"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
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Rumi
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
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"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
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Avicenna
"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
"You were sent to unite people. You were not sent to divide people."
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Rumi
"You were sent to unite people. You were not sent to divide people."
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"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again."
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Omar Khayyam
"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again."
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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
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Omar Khayyam
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
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Omar Khayyam
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it."
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Omar Khayyam
"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it."
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"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity."
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Sa'Di
"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity."
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
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Omar Khayyam
"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet."
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Sa'Di
"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet."
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"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground."
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Rumi
"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground."
"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand."
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Ferdowsi
"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand."
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"Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye."
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Sa'Di
"Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye."
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"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
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Omar Khayyam
"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
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"And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended."
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Ferdowsi
"And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended."
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"And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud."
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Ferdowsi
"And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud."
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"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."
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Rumi
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."
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"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."
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Omar Khayyam
"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."
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"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."
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Rumi
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."
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"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
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Rumi
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
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"Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides."
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Ferdowsi
"Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides."
Now,
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"That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence."
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Avicenna
"That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence."
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"How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?"
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Ferdowsi
"How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?"
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"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."
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Omar Khayyam
"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."
"The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God."
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Rumi
"The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God."
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"A hair divides what is false and true."
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Omar Khayyam
"A hair divides what is false and true."
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"All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls...."
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Rumi
"All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls...."
"Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health."
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Avicenna
"Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health."
"Let silence take you to the core of life."
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Rumi
"Let silence take you to the core of life."
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"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?"
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Rumi
"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?"
"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."
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Rumi
"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."
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"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."
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Rumi
"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."
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"Say I Am YouI am dust particles in sunlight.I am the round sun.To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep moving.I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening.I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff.Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.Silence, thought, and voice.The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal.Both candle and the moth crazy around it.Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is, and what isn't.You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all,say who I am. Say I am You."
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Rumi
"Say I Am YouI am dust particles in sunlight.I am the round sun.To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep moving.I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening.I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff.Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.Silence, thought, and voice.The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal.Both candle and the moth crazy around it.Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is, and what isn't.You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all,say who I am. Say I am You."
"Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."
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Rumi
"Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."
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"If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek."
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Rumi
"If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek."
"I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
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Rumi
"I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
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Rumi
"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
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"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself."
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Rumi
"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself."
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"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
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Rumi
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
"Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter!The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close."
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Rumi
"Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter!The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close."
"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"
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"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"
"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute."
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Rumi
"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute."
"Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone."
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Rumi
"Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone."
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"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"
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Rumi
"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"
"In the silence of love, you will find the spark of life."
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Rumi
"In the silence of love, you will find the spark of life."
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"If metal can be polishedto a mirrorlike finish,what polishing might the mirrorof the heart require?Between the mirror and the heartis this single difference:the heart conceals secrets,while the mirror does not."
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Rumi
"If metal can be polishedto a mirrorlike finish,what polishing might the mirrorof the heart require?Between the mirror and the heartis this single difference:the heart conceals secrets,while the mirror does not."
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"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."
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Rumi
"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."
"Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!"
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Rumi
"Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!"
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