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#1

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#2

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

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#3

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”
― Eve Ensler

tags: autonomy, carpe-diem, cherish, enjoy-life, self-empowerment, self-reliance, solitude

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#4

“As soon as we are alone,...inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confusing that we can hardly wait to get busy again. Entering a private room and shutting the door, therefore, does not mean that we immediatel;y shut ou all our iner doubts, anxieities, fears, bad memories, unresolved conflicts, angry feelings and impulsive desires. On the contrary, when we have removed our outer distraction, we often find that our inner distraction manifest themselves to us in full force. We often use the outer distractions to shield ourselves from the interior noises. This makes the discipline of solitude all the more important.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Making All Things New and Other Classics

tags: solitude

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#5

“Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.”
― Herbert Spencer

tags: bold, boldness, courage, herbert-spencer

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#6

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#7

“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
― John Milton, Paradise Regained

tags: inspirational

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#8

“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
― John Milton

tags: heaven-and-hell, hell, lost, milton, paradise

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#9

“Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?
That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?
That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?”
― John Milton

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#10

“Detachment is not giving up the things in this world, but accepting the fact and to be continuously aware that nothing is permanent.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: attachment, detachment, impermanence

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#11

“It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: self-worth, tragedy, validation, wisdom, worthiness

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#12

“Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: appearance, awareness, disappear, illusion, impermanence, life-philosophy

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#13

“Don't ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: mind, nothingness, silence, stillness

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#14

“Don't push, don't resist. Let it happen. Nature will align everything.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: destiny, fate, nature, non-resistance

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#15

“Freedom, joy or bliss doesn't come from the situation that we think we should be, but it derives from the one that we are already in.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: bliss, freedom, joy, present-moment

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#16

“Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted negative stimulus.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: dysfunctional, mind, negative-attitude, negative-thoughts, pain

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#17

“If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world; offer your silence with smile.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: equilibrium, silence, smile, worthy

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#18

“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, believe-in-yourself, company, composure, contentment, crowd, detachment, disturbance, enigma, enigmatic, freedom, friends, friendship, friendships, happiness, liberty, lonely, lonliness, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, once, one, privacy, private-life, remember, rememberance, separation, single, today, toxic-people, unecessary, yesterday, you

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#19

“The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.”
― Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

tags: attachment, buddhism, detachment, possession, sprituality

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#20

“As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulation - and if these things are taken away, we fall over. To the extent that we are dependent on these external supports, we grow weaker and more liable to upsets and misfortune.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow

tags: detachment, independence, inner-strength, spirituality

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#21

“Three-step rule can be followed in life :
Firstly, do not cling to something or somebody or a thought or idea. Secondly, do not run away or escape from yourself. Third and most important is to watch ‘oneself’ as an outsider without taking sides, judging and forcing opinions.”
― Pragya Tiwari, Outlet from Loneliness

tags: clinging, detachment, escaping, freedom, ofl, oflquoteseries, oneself, outletfromloneliness, threesteprule, watchyourself

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#22

“Doom, or save. That I cannot do. For I have no power beyond that of knowledge, no ability to bend others to my will, no way to stop them doing what they will. There is only me.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

tags: detachment

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#23

“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: attachment, belongings, detachment, free, home, life, love, meditation, minimalism, philosophy

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#24

“Life is a combo of attachment and detachment.

Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to persons, places and things. However, while getting attached so, you should know that all these attachments too have an expiry date. It's exactly at that point that the art of detachment helps.

Persons, places and things are meant for specific periods in life after which you should know how to let go and embrace newer things. The world is beautiful and you should have belief in Him.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

tags: attachment, attachments, detachment, detachments, life, love, moving-on, neelam-saxena-chandra

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#25

“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

tags: jealousy, maturity, possessiveness

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#27

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
― Vivekananda , Letters of Swami Vivekananda, Year 1960

tags: law, love

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#28

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
― Vivekananda

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#29

“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
― Vivekananda

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#30

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda

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#31

“It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda

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