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#1

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: inspirational

824 likes

#2

“tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#3

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: absurd, absurdity, hope, idea

643 likes

#4

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31255 likes

#5

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: forgiveness

4888 likes

#6

“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
― Robin Williams

tags: life-lessons, wisdom

781 likes

#7

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

1525 likes

#8

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

1379 likes

#9

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: bad, liar

1458 likes

#10

“If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: literature, words, writing

451 likes

#11

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
― William Gibson

354 likes

#12

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

tags: masks

1024 likes

#13

“I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.”
― Robert Redford

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#14

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: attitude, empowerment, inspirational, life, self-determination, strength

115 likes

#15

“Görüyorsunuz, erkekler bir şeyin üzerine işemekten hoşlanırlar-aslında köpekler gibi.”
― Pierre Schoendoerffer, Yukarıda

2 likes

#16

“Demiri nasıl tavında dövmek gerekiyorsa, çekiç darbelerini nasıl soğutmadan indirmek gerekiyorsa her kelimeyi de öyle tam zamanında söylemek gerekiyordu. O anı geçince söz soğuyor, katılaşıyor, insanın yüreğine taş gibi oturuyor ve bu ağırlığı kaldırıp atmak hiç de kolay olmuyordu.”
― Chingiz Aitmatov, Toprak Ana

9 likes

#17

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: philosophy, taoism

599 likes

#18

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3231 likes

#19

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

2476 likes

#20

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
― Plato

432 likes

#21

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: clarity-of-thought, intelligence, iq, truths, wisdom

160 likes

#22

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
― Tom Waits

459 likes

#23

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
― Tom Waits

tags: books, literature, writing

432 likes

#24

“I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.”
― Tom Waits

29 likes

#25

“Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.”
― tom waits

25 likes

#26

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

1680 likes

#27

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

6320 likes

#28

“Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

19 likes

#29

“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

tags: happiness, inspirational, miss-marple

78 likes

#30

“Fear is incomplete knowledge”
― Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End

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