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#1

“Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”
― Wei Wu Wei

tags: devotee, disciples, form, forms, religion, religious, spirituality

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#2

“rush of pine scent (once upon a time),

the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this.”
― Paul Celan, Glottal Stop

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#3

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring

1418 likes

#4

“I am always in love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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#5

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: hemingway, writer, writing

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#6

“I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.”
― Philip Hensher

tags: quotes-to-live-by

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#7

“Love is holy.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: holy, love, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, shakespeare

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#8

“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

tags: believe, believe-in-yourself, bravery, coming-of-age, commitment, communication, compassion, courage, discernment, faith, flight, fly, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, heart, honesty, importance, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, joy, kindness, knowledge, knowledge-of-self, living, love, mental, mindfulness, mindset, open-your-heart, people, philosophy, poetry, quotes-to-live-by, skills, spirit, spiritual, spirituality, survival, times, treasure, truth, truth-of-life, truthfulness, understanding, uplifting, wisdom, wisdom-quotes, words-of-wisdom, words-to-live-by

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#9

“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle.”
― Diana Palmer, A Man of Means

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#10

“In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
The secret isn't that you're not being told.
The secret is that you're not able to hear.”
― ram dass

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#11

“when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

tags: eastern-philosophy, esoterism, meditation, philosophy

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#12

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity

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#13

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

562 likes

#14

“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#15

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: cruelty, honesty

464 likes

#16

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

tags: burning, fire, house, trapped, windows

478 likes

#17

“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#18

“Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#19

“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

tags: a-streetcar-named-desire, tennessee-williams

172 likes

#20

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

tags: life, time

194 likes

#21

“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: burning, love

172 likes

#22

“Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.”
― Tennessee Williams

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#23

“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters, Vol. 1: 1920-1945

65 likes

#24

“The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: conformity

50 likes

#25

“I will read long books and the journals of dead writers. I will feel closer to them than I ever felt to people I used to know before I withdrew from the world. It will be sweet and cool this friendship of mine with dead poets, for I won’t have to touch them or answer their questions. They will talk to me and not expect me to answer. And I’ll get sleepy listening to their voices explaining the mysteries to me. I’ll fall asleep with the book still in my fingers, and it will rain.”
― Tennessee Williams, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words

45 likes

#26

“I’m not good. I don’t know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody’s good.”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

30 likes

#27

“Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind”
― Tennessee Williams

22 likes

#28

“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, bad-influence, be-yourself, behaviour, believe-in-yourself, callow, childishness, company, etiquette, good-behaviour, good-quality, immature, immaturity, maturity, mediocre, mediocrity, negative-influence, negative-people, outstanding, peculiar, peculiarity, presence, quality, sensitivity, single, stand-alone

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#29

“The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: attention, awareness, brain, cognition, compassion, dopamine, emotions, empathy, exaggeration, external, extroversion, extrovert, feelings, internal, introversion, introvert, personality, pity, private, psychology, public, senses, sensitivity, social, sympathy, traits

95 likes

#30

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: big-names, character, chaste, chasticity, clean, cleanliness, decency, discipline, flamboyance, flamboyant, good-choice, good-woman, her, integrity, ladies, lady, luxurious, luxury, money, move, name, names, opulence, profound, pure, purity, sensitivity, she, sound-judgment, virtue, wisdom, woman-of-virtue

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