"But some nights, I must tell you,I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep.I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.I sing a love song as well as I can,lost for a while in the home of the rain."
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"Always be a poet, even in prose."
"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises."
"I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard."
"Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be."
"I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain."
"Success is not an activity but a process."
"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
"Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss."
"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
"Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?"
"When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living."
"To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist."
"My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing."
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