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#1

“Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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#2

“The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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#3

“Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst enemy. Your only defense is to be hard on yourself, which becomes compulsive, and therefore a comfort, to peck yourself to death.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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#4

“Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#5

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
― Juliette Lewis

tags: bravery, courage, death-and-dying, death-wish, despair, hopelessness, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, suicidal-thoughts, suicidality, suicide

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#6

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
― Melody Beattie

tags: self-reflection

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#7

“ask yourself what you can do to move from ‘wanting to get’ to ‘wanting to give.”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings

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#8

“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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#12

“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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#13

“Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform

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#16

“It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny... It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and you will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: dreams, inspirational

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#17

“This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold.
That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#18

“This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.'
'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded.
'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: thankfulness

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#20

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: complaint, condemnation, criticism, fools, misattributed-ben-franklin

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#22

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

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#23

“Social media is basically standing at a bucket filled with other people’s vomit and you suck the vomit through a straw, and gag and wince at the unbearable taste of other people’s vomit. Yet strangely we continue to suck through the straw as if we’ve never tasted such lovely vomit. And then before you know it you’re old and you’re grey. And that’s the end of you. A lonely death. Your gravestone is marked with the six saddest words:

Social Media Drained My Soul Away

And they all mourn your loss at a budget funeral service while updating their social media statuses on mobile phones apps. And in years to come nobody remembers any of your updates; even those updates that you deep-down believed were going to bring about world peace. The Digital Age is more disposable than nappies and just as full of shit.”
― Rupert Dreyfus, The Rebel's Sketchbook

tags: black-comedy, satire, social-media, transgessive

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#24

“If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.”
― Germany Kent

tags: abundance, abundance-and-attitude, abundance-creation, abundance-quote, advice, analytics, attitude-is-everything, best-practices, biz-talk, brand-experience, brand-strategy, brands, break-the-cycle, communication-online, communication-tips, content, cyberspace, digital-citizens, digital-citizenship, digital-footprint, digital-influencer, digital-life, digital-lit, digital-media, digital-skills, digitale, direction, driven-by-purpose, ed-tech, entrepreneur, facebook, facebook-quotes, germany-kent, germany-kent-quote, germany-kent-quotes, goals, golden-rules, google-plus, gratitude, higher-education, hope-guru, ideas, inspiration, instagram, instagram-quotes, internet, life-and-living, life-experience, life-hack, life-lessons-quotes, life-philosophy, lifestyle, like-a-pro, linkedin, linkedin-quotes, live-in-the-moment, live-with-purpose, marketing-automation, media-literacy, millennials, motivational-enlightenment, motivational-inspirational, motivational-speaker, need-to-know, need-to-know-now, netiquette, network, network-marketing, networking, networking-quotes, note-to-self, on-trend, online, online-communication, online-discussion, online-education, online-marketing, optimism, optimization, passion, passion-quotes, passionate-living, perception, perception-of-reality, perceptions, personal-branding, personal-development, personal-growth, pinterest, positive-outlook, positivity, productivity, professional, promote, real-talk, rebranding, seo, smart-tech, social-education, social-intelligence, social-media, social-media-101, social-media-addiction, social-media-advice, social-media-audiences, social-media-author, social-media-behavior, social-media-for-authors, social-media-life, social-media-marketing, social-media-mind, social-media-tools, social-networking, social-networks, success, success-self-improvement, success-strategies, table-talk, take-action, tech, the-hope-guru, think-before-you-post, think-before-you-tweet, tips-and-tricks, to-do, to-do-it, to-do-list, top-tips, trends, twitter, twitter-advice, twitter-audiences, twitter-mind, twitter-nation, twitter-quote, twitter-quotes, web, what-you-tweet, words-to-live-by, you-are-what-you-tweet, you-owe-it-to-yourself, you-tube

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#25

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational, motivation

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#25

“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: aspirations, devil, goodness, inspirational, life, live, morning, motivational, purpose

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#25

“Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more “Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.” It’s rarely the truth: “I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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#25

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: character, influence, leadership

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#25

“It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”
― Paulo Coelho , The Alchemist

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#26

“You are what you share.”
― Charles Leadbeater, We-Think : Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

tags: inspirational-quotes, internet, social-media

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#26

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: inspirational, life-and-living, life-lessons

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#27

“Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively:
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#27

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: judging, opinions

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#27

“Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#27

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."
-- The Alchemist”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: the-alchemist

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#28

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
― Buddha

tags: mission, purpose, work

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#29

“My father loved the library because it was a safe haven for him — no missed cultural cues, no bigoted insults from his coworkers, no glaring reminders of what was lost. All patrons of the library were pilgrims to the oracle, all seeking the same thing: knowledge. And in their pursuit of the same thing, they were all equals.”
― Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In

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