Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

Love

"This love is the rose that blooms forever."

- Rumi

Love

"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."

- Rumi

Resilience

"A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn."

- Rumi

Resilience

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

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"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

Self-awareness