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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”
    ― Dhammapada
    tags: wisdom
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    David Deida
    “If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
    ― David Deida, Blue Truth
    tags: life, living, love, suffering
    80 likes

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    Henry Miller
    “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”
    ― rabindranath tagore
    tags: mind, reality
    351 likes

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    Corita Kent
    “Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.”
    ― Corita Kent
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hang, Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training
    tags: breath, breathing, feelings, meditation, mindfulness
    1011 likes

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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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    Louis L'Amour
    “Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: life, mindfulness, present
    190 likes

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    Laurence Binyon
    “We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
    ― Lawrence Binyon
    tags: breathing, mindfulness, peace
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    Joseph Campbell
    “The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: eternity, heaven, life
    117 likes

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    Ryōkan
    “Keep your heart clear
    And transparent,
    And you will
    Never be bound.
    A single disturbed thought
    Creates ten thousand distractions.”
    ― Ryokan
    tags: authenticity, honesty, meditation, thinking, thought
    246 likes

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    Peter Matthiessen
    “When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”
    ― Peter Matthiessen
    tags: life, meditation, mind, reality, remorse, thinking
    68 likes

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    538 likes

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    “The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.”
    ― Bhante Y. Wimala
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    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
    3899 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: life
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Ajahn Chah
    “Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace. ”
    ― Ajahn Chah
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: greatness, simplicity
    199 likes

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    Jack Kornfield
    “You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.”
    ― Jack Kornfield
    86 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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  • #30
    Gautama Buddha
    “Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: beliefs, doubt, faith
    1256 likes



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