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#1

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: aspiration, pride, self-improvement

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#2

“Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.”
― Jean Baudrillard

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#3

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#4

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

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#5

“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

tags: addiction, bravery, consciousness, courage, denial, dissociation, mindfulness, psychology, repression, self-knowledge, therapy, wellbeing

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#6

“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”
― Ram Dass

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#7

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#8

“truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: truth

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#9

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

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#10

“Passion creates, addiction consumes.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

tags: addiction, inspirational, passion

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#11

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: giving, love

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#12

“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#13

“It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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#14

“Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.”
― Albert Einstein

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#15

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
― ram dass

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#16

“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

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#17

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”
― ram dass

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#18

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: life, reality

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#19

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#20

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

tags: beauty, everything, seeing

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#21

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#22

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

tags: romance

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#23

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society

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#24

“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: prayer

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#25

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#26

“Eines Tages klopfte die Angst an die Tür. Der Mut stand auf und öffnete. Aber da war keiner.”
― Goethe

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#27

“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: advice, albert-einstein

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#28

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Burnt Tongues

tags: burnt-tongues, chuck-palahniuk

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#29

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#30

“When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar

tags: judgment

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