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#1

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#2

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#3

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

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#4

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friendship

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#5

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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#6

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: destiny, self-determination

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#7

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: courage, inspirational

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#8

“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
― Margaret Fuller

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#9

“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”
― Margaret Fuller

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#10

“All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.”
― Margaret Fuller

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#11

“I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”
― Margaret Fuller

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#12

“...above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...”
― Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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#13

“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.”
― Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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#14

“There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t even talk; they sort of slobber and stumble…Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation…Fools don’t claim that cats bark, but they talk about cats when everyone else is talking about dogs. They offend all the rules of conversation, and when they really offend, they’re magnificent…Morons never do the wrong thing. They get their reasoning wrong. Like the fellow who says that all dogs are pets and all dogs bark, and cats are pets, too, therefore cats bark…Morons will occasionally say something that’s right, but they say it for the wrong reason…A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn’t know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars…There are lunatics who don’t bring up the Templars, but those who do are the most insidious. At first they seem normal, then all of a sudden…”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

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#15

“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

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#16

“How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: perception

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#17

“You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: inspirational, wisdom-inspirational

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#18

“But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

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#19

“Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: history-repeating-itself, philosophy

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#20

“Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: philosophy, philosophy-of-religion, religion, theology, truth

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#21

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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#22

“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: calm, insane, insanity, sane, sensible

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#23

“Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about
shame  and dignity.
You are God's lover, 
yet you worry
what people
are saying.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: heart, identity, love, rumi, shame

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#24

“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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#25

“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

Drumsound rises on the air,
its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,
"I know you're tired,
but come. This is the way."

Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone?

Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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#26

“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: amour, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-thoughts, desire, devotion, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, fire, fuel, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, hate, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, inspiration, longing, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, lust, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, muse, paramour, passionate-living, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, romance, romanticism, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, the-one-that-got-away, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

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#27

“To be a muse is to be a wonder in someone else's eyes, flaws and all.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

tags: muse

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#28

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: contemplation, fragments, great, great-man, idea, inspirational-quote, little-things, michael-bassey-johnson, muse, musing, musings, reflection, retrospection, talent, thinking, thoughts, useless, wisdom

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#29

“I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: author, books, create, creative, creative-writing, dance, in-love, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, letters, literature, love, love-poems, love-quotes, lover, loving, met, muse, musings, novelist, novels, poems, poet, poetry, poetry-quotes, prose, serious, sing, solemn, somber, superfluous, verse, words, write, writer, writing, writing-poems, writing-quotes, wrote

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#30

“If I had never played with Lego as a child or enjoyed making things, I would never have suited being a surgeon.”
― Arnold van de Laar, Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

tags: dark-humor

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