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    André Gide
    “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
    ― André Gide
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    “Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. That's why life is hard.”
    ― Jeremy Goldberg, It’ll Be Okay, And You Will Be Too.
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    William Blake
    “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    Franz Kafka
    “I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: opinions-paulo-coelho
    121 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: inspirational, motivational
    55 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: determination, fate
    2087 likes

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    Confucius
    “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
    ― Confucius
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    Hermes Trismegistus
    “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”
    ― Hermes Trismegistus
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: humourous, motivational, philosophical, quirky
    207 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Joseph Campbell
    “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: heroism
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    Aubrey de Grey
    “Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.”
    ― Aubrey de Grey
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
    2953 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
    5815 likes

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    “Nothing Lasts, but Nothing is Lost.”
    ― Simon Posford
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
    7847 likes

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    Joseph Campbell
    “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: cave, fear
    1484 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: inspirational-attitude
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    Sheryl Sandberg
    “Done is better than perfect.”
    ― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
    tags: business, career, inspirational, lean-in, self-help, women
    665 likes

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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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    Mother Teresa
    “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: agape, love, metaphor, paraphrased
    1012 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― Carl Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, growth, imagination, integration, light, mindfulness, shadow, wholeness
    303 likes



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