Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#rum

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #rum




You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-


Cassandra Clare


#city-of-glass #isabelle-lightwood #life #mortal-instruments #sacrifice

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 agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute


Rumi


#spirituality #sufi #wisdom #life

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist...


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#pedagogy #education

Grumble weakens the spirit. Despair is counterproductive. Both are true toxicants in life.


Toba Beta


#grumble #poison #life

And that is just precisely what Christianity is about. This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.


C.S. Lewis


#god #rumour #sculpting #life

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.


Cassandra Clare


#city-of-glass #clary #jace #love #mortal-instruments

Love is a contradiction.


Cassandra Clare


#jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #love

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.


Rumi


#love #poetry #rumi #spiritual #sufi

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.


Rumi


#love

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.


Rumi


#rumi #love






back to top