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    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: experience
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    Alain de Botton
    “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: activity, disappointment
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    Alain de Botton
    “Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: change, embarrassment, learning, life, time
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    Alain de Botton
    “The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: anxiety, personality, sadness
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    Alain de Botton
    “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”
    ― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
    tags: travel
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    Alain de Botton
    “Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”
    ― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
    tags: books, booksellers, loneliness
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    Alain de Botton
    “The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: normality, people
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    Alain de Botton
    “Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: control, despair, foresight, hope, surrender
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    Alain de Botton
    “What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.”
    ― Alain de Botton
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: motivation
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
    ― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
    tags: abnormal, frankl, meaning, viktor
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
    ― Victor Frankl
    tags: inspirational-quotes, overcoming-adversity-quotes, philosophy-of-life
    673 likes

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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
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    “What is reality? I like the answer of the novelist Philip K. Dick: It is whatever, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
    ― Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
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    Daniel Kahneman
    “higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life.”
    ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Daniel Kahneman
    “I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.”
    ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: giving, goals, goals-in-life, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, learn, learning, life, life-quotes, light, light-and-darkness, living-life, meaning, meaning-of-life, meaningful, meaningful-life, wisdom, wise
    4880 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: beauty, experience, flight, flying, freedom, growing, growth, heal, healing, hurt, hurting, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, living, living-life, pain, painful, wind, wings, wisdom, wisdom-in-life, wisdom-quotes
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  • #30
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: humor, wisdom
    1856 likes



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