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    “There's no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you think they're perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction. 'Cos your soulmate is the person that pushes all your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit.”
    ― Madonna
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    “If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
    ― Madonna
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    “Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”
    ― Madonna
    tags: malawi, masdonna, mercy
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    “Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.”
    ― Madonna
    tags: bitch, life
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    “I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.”
    ― Madonna
    tags: inspirational
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  • #6
    “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
    ― Madonna
    tags: art, creativity, identity, inspiration, life, self-esteem, self-love, strength, women
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  • #7
    “Power without guilt, love without doubt....”
    ― Madonna
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    “It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.”
    ― Madonna
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  • #9
    “I always thought I should be treated like a star.”
    ― Madonna
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  • #10
    “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
    ― Madonna
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  • #11
    “I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
    ― Madonna
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  • #12
    “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
    ― Frank Crane
    tags: trust
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  • #13
    Zhuangzi
    “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
    ― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu
    tags: philosophy, spirituality
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  • #14
    Zhuangzi
    “The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
    ― Zhuangzi
    tags: wisdom
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  • #15
    Zhuangzi
    “Let your heart be at peace.
    Watch the turmoil of beings
    but contemplate their return.

    If you don't realize the source,
    you stumble in confusion and sorrow.
    When you realize where you come from,
    you naturally become tolerant,
    disinterested, amused,
    kindhearted as a grandmother,
    dignified as a king.
    Immersed in the wonder of the Tao,
    you can deal with whatever life brings you,
    And when death comes, you are ready.”
    ― Chuang Tzu
    tags: tao
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  • #16
    Zhuangzi
    “To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”
    ― Chuang Tzu
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  • #17
    Zhuangzi
    “The sound of water says what I think.”
    ― Chuang Tzu
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  • #18
    Zhuangzi
    “We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
    ― Chuang Tzu
    tags: death, existentialism, life, tao, taoism
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  • #19
    Zhuangzi
    “During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.”
    ― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu
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  • #20
    Zhuangzi
    “A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of your banks and seen the Great Ocean. You now know your own inferiority, so it is now possible to discuss great principles with you.
    井蛙不可以語於海者，拘於虛也；夏蟲不可以語於冰者，篤於時也；曲士不可以語於道者，束於教也。今爾出於崖涘，觀於大海，乃知爾醜，爾將可與語大理矣。”
    ― Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu
    tags: ch-17
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  • #21
    Zhuangzi
    “Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.”
    ― Chuang Tzu
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  • #22
    Zhuangzi
    “Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.”
    ― Zhuangzi
    tags: dreaming, dreams, lucidity, reality
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  • #23
    Zhuangzi
    “The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.”
    ― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
    tags: emptiness, mind, mirror, taoism
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  • #24
    Zhuangzi
    “Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.”
    ― Chuang Tse
    tags: buddhism, striving, transformation
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  • #25
    Zhuangzi
    “Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself. I had no idea I was Chuang Tzu. Then suddenly I woke up and was Chuang Tzu again. But I could not tell, had I been Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I was now Chuang Tzu? However, there must be some sort of difference between Chuang Tzu and a butterfly! We call this the transformation of things.”
    ― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
    tags: butterfly, chuang-tzu, dreams, reality, taoism
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  • #26
    Zhuangzi
    “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
    ― Chuang Tzu
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  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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