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    Jostein Gaarder
    “Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
    tags: philosophy, self-knowledge
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
    tags: life, living
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
    tags: difference, joker, loneliness, stranger
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
    tags: death
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  • #5
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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  • #7
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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  • #8
    “Yatho Hasta thatho Drishti, Yatho Drishti thatho Manah
    Yatho Manah thatho Bhaava, Yatho Bhaava thatho Rasa”
    ― Natyashastra
    tags: dance, dancer
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  • #9
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life
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  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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  • #14
    Wayne W. Dyer
    “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
    tags: karma, life
    1742 likes

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  • #15
    Daisaku Ikeda
    “it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.”
    ― Daisaku Ikeda
    tags: buddhism, destiny, happiness, humanism, inspirational, karma, peace, self-reformation
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  • #16
    Daisaku Ikeda
    “Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.”
    ― Daisaku Ikeda
    tags: buddhism, destiny, happiness, humanism, inspirational, karma, peace, self-reformation
    361 likes

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  • #17
    Sakyong Mipham
    “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.”
    ― Sakyong Mipham
    tags: karma, life
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  • #18
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: annihilation, bad-people, concentration, cruel, curse, destruction, downfall, enemies, haters, hatred, image, karma, karmic, malice, malicious, michael-bassey-johnson, murder, negative-people, negativity, prayer, prayers, ruin, self-destruction, slippery, spoilers, tarnish, thinking-evil, witchcraft
    228 likes

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  • #19
    Ben Okri
    “The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.”
    ― Ben Okri, Astonishing the Gods
    tags: experience, karma, suffering
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  • #20
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
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  • #21
    Gautama Buddha
    “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, saying, walk
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  • #22
    Eckhart Tolle
    “When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable, That which cannot be named.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now
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