Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

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Travel brings power and love back into your life. ― Rumi

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I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

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To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. ― Conrad Hilton

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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come. ― Rumi

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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ― Rumi

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If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ― Rumi

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

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ― Rumi

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