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    Dan Barker
    “Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.”
    ― Dan Barker, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
    tags: atheism, science
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    Georges Duhamel
    “I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.”
    ― Georges Duhamel
    tags: atheism, god
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”
    ― Robert Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
    tags: atheism, creeds, hate, sum, worship
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
    tags: creationism, god, inspirational
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: artists
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
    tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love is the absence of judgment.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspiration
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: inspiration
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: incrementalism
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: animal-rights
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  • #17
    “You only lose what you cling to.”
    ― Guatama Buddha
    tags: attachment, buddhism
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    Albert Einstein
    “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed, attributed-to-einstein-no-source, buddhism, religion, science, unsourced
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    Daisaku Ikeda
    “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”
    ― Daisaku Ikeda
    tags: buddhism
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #21
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #24
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    ― Oscar Levant
    tags: genius, humor, insanity
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    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
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    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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    J.K. Rowling
    “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: humor, shampoo
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: humor
    6001 likes



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