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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: ego, fame, openness, patience, receptivity

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#2

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
― Robert Frost

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#3

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self

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#4

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: conceit, ego, self-worth

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#5

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: cynicism, dire

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#6

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: future

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#7

“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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#8

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#9

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: future, human-nature, past

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#10

“The damaged loves the damaged.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

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#11

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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#12

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: choke, disease, doctors, life, medical-training, medicine, palahniuk, physicians, waiting

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#13

“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#14

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: orphans

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#15

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#16

“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: humor

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#17

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#18

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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#19

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#20

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication

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#21

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: simplicity, truth

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#22

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: greatness, simplicity

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#23

“I don't reproach the spring
for starting up again.
I can't blame it
for doing what it must
year after year.

I know that my grief
will not stop the green.”
― Wisława Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

tags: green, greenness, grief, loss, mourning, sorrow, spring, springtime

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#24

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: gandalf, grief

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#25

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: fear, grief, sorrow

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#26

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

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#27

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, sadness, sorrow, words

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#28

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

tags: bereavement, casket, death, funeral, heart, loss, love, mourning

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#29

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: bereavement, death

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#30

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something”
― Plato

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