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#1

“Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”
― Normandi Ellis, Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

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#2

“For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.”
― Thomas Mann

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#3

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#4

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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#5

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom

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#6

“Silence is more profitable unto thee than abundance of speech.”
― Ptahhotep, The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World

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#7

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

tags: inspirational

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#8

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom

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#9

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

tags: inspirational

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#10

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

tags: inspirational

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#11

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
― Gautama Buddha

tags: inspirational

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#12

“You only lose what you cling to.”
― Guatama Buddha

tags: attachment, buddhism

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#13

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: accountability, inner-peace, peace, self-acceptance, spiritual

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#14

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”
― Buddha

tags: inspirational

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#15

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
― Buddha

tags: anger-management, buddha

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#16

“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
― Buddha

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#17

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
― Buddha

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#18

“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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#19

“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
― Buddha

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“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver

tags: misattributed-buddha, tolerance, understanding

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#21

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
― Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

tags: buddha, buddhism, wisdom

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#22

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: wisdom

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#23

“It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni, The Sutra Of The Forty-Two Sections

tags: buddhism, sutra, sutras

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#24

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

tags: compassion, self-respect

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#25

“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
― Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

tags: christian, faith, god, jesus, spirituality

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#26

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: care, christ, christianity, christmas, clothe, enemies, feed, forgive, golden-rule, guilty, hungry, ill, inspirational, jesus, life, love, motivational, naked, service, unwanted, welcome

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#27

“Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts."

The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.”
― Rob Bell

tags: anger, cross, crucifixtion, god, hurt, jesus, suffering

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#28

“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

tags: jesus, poverty

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#29

“The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.”
― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

tags: christ, christian, cross, god, inspirational, jesus, love, passion, romance, world

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#30

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: christian, god, jesus, pray, prayer

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