Favorite Quotes

“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
― Rumi,

“ there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven of fear of hell, but because He is God.”


“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

"The mountains are calling and I must go."
— John Muir

"Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed."
— John Muir

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“How odd to watch a mortal kindle, Then to dwindle day by day, Knowing their bright souls are tinder, And the wind will have its way” - Patrick Rothfuss

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ― Socrates

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” ― Kahlil Gibran

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind" ― Kahlil Gibran

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi


Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green

"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?"

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”


“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

"A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt."

--Urusla K. LeGuin

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one." - Brandon Sanderson

"And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not mind that we wound her surface or pillage her bounty, because she knows we silly warm things are not even a breath in her cosmic life. We have grown and spread, and will rage and die. And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality."

Pierce Brown

“It won’t be like that for me,” Kaladin said. “You told me it would get worse.”

“It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”

“By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of stars.”
― T.E. Lawrence


“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky,