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    Ram Dass
    “The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
    ― ram dass
    tags: inspirational, spiritual-wisdom
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    Ram Dass
    “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
    ― Ram Dass
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    Ram Dass
    “We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
    ― ram dass
    tags: negotiation, understanding
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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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
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    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: beauty, everything, seeing
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: alone, attributed-no-source
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Dave Eggers
    “We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
    ― dave eggers
    tags: life
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    Dave Eggers
    “We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”
    ― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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  • #25
    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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46510 likes



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