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#1

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: advice, experience, life, variety, wine

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#2

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, light

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#3

“If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: acceptance-of-oneself, behavior, growth, humility, improvement, love, morality, repentance, self-hate, self-loathing, self-love

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#4

“When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: boast, boasting, capacity, credentials, discernment, incompetence, individuality, judgment, unreliable

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#5

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#6

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#7

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#8

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#9

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

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#10

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

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#11

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion

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#12

“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".”
― Yohji Yamamoto

tags: mystery, neutrality

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#13

“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends

tags: death, existence, live

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#14

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: muhammad-ali

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#15

“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno

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#16

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
― Suzy Kassem

tags: doubt, failure, self-doubt, success, suzy-kassem

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#17

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”
― Harun Yahya

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#18

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh

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#19

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

tags: interesting

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