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    Czesław Miłosz
    “It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends”
    ― Czeslaw Milosz
    tags: poetry
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  • #4
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My past is everything I failed to be.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: failure, past, self, time
    1475 likes

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  • #5
    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning
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  • #10
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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  • #12
    Dōgen
    “Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,
    Without looking for the traces I may have left;
    A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home;
    Hearing this, I tilt my head to see
    Who has told me to turn back;

    But do not ask me where I am going,
    As I travel in this limitless world,
    Where every step I take is my home.”
    ― Eihei Dogen
    tags: inspirational, spiritual
    27 likes

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  • #14
    J. Krishnamurti
    “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
    1234 likes

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  • #15
    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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  • #19
    Dōgen
    “do not view mountains from the scale of human thought”
    ― Dogen
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  • #23
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
    34796 likes

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  • #27
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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  • #30
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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  • #32
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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  • #34
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
    3890 likes

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  • #37
    George Santayana
    “Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
    ― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
    tags: madness, sanity
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  • #38
    George Santayana
    “The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
    ― George Santayana
    213 likes

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  • #39
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
    3471 likes

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  • #40
    George Santayana
    “There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.”
    ― George Santayana
    tags: growth, humor, openness
    39 likes

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  • #43
    George Santayana
    “Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
    ― George Santayana
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  • #44
    George Santayana
    “To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.”
    ― George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
    tags: beauty-feeling-science-taste
    31 likes

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  • #46
    George Santayana
    “Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”
    ― George Santayana
    tags: advertising
    40 likes

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  • #47
    Lao Tzu
    “If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    638 likes

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  • #49
    Lao Tzu
    “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: philosophy, taoism
    599 likes

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  • #51
    Lao Tzu
    “By letting go it all gets done.”
    ― Lao-Tzu
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  • #52
    Lao Tzu
    “Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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  • #54
    Lao Tzu
    “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, conflict, life, living, thinking, work
    404 likes

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  • #55
    Lao Tzu
    “If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: attachment
    451 likes

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  • #56
    Lao Tzu
    “Close your mouth,
    block off your senses,
    blunt your sharpness,
    untie your knots,
    soften your glare,
    settle your dust.
    This is the primal identity.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Literal Translation With an Introduction, Notes, and Commentary
    274 likes

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  • #57
    Lao Tzu
    “When there is no desire,
    all things are at peace.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    284 likes

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  • #58
    Lao Tzu
    “When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.”
    ― Tao Te Ching
    tags: appear, disappear, ready, student, tao-te-ching, teacher
    335 likes

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  • #59
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    235 likes



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