Yunus Emre Quotes

#1. If I told you about a land of love ... would you swallow it as a remedy?

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#2. If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

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#3. Don't let me wander from Your love,
Don't let me leave Your door,
And if I lose myself,
Let me find myself with You.

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#4. To love the world is to be afflicted.

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#5. A heart makes a good home for the friend.

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#6. Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

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#7. Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

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#8. Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.

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#9. Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

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#10. The earth shall be left to no one.

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#11. I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable.

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#12. I am the drop that contains the ocean

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#13. My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

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#14. Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow ...

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