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#1

“Other people’s lives seem better than yours because you’re comparing their director’s cuts with your behind the scenes.”
― Evan Rauch

tags: better, comparing, life-lessons

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#2

“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
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― Jim Rohn

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#3

“If you don't like how things are, change it. You are not a tree.
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― Jim Rohn

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#4

“Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.”
― John Wooden, Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success: Building Blocks for a Better Life

tags: inspirational, success

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#5

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success

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#6

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success

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#7

“Living for the Approval Rating
Of Hypocrites and Tools
Makes one an Honorary Member of Fools”
― Aida Mandic, A Candid Aim

tags: approval, critical-thinking, individuality, rebellion, self-expression

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#8

“Remember that self-discipline is not self-suppression. Suppression is when you resist and fight against your desires, keeping them as buried and unexpressed as possible. Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.”
― David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

tags: awareness, discipline, masculinity, self-expression, self-improvement

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#9

“People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

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#10

“In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: libertine, older-women, sex, women

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#11

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963

tags: god, trust

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#12

“If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.”
― Alan Alda

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#13

“You have to leave the city of your comfort ano into the wilderness of your intuition. what you'll discover will be woderful. what you'll discover will be yourself.”
― Alan Alda

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#14

“There is no hidden meaning to life ... looking for one is our problem solving brain chasing its tail”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

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#15

“I’ve been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There’s really no failing in improv. You just go on to the next thing.”
― Alan Alda

tags: improvisation

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#16

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: authentic-living, being-positive, blessed, compassion, hate, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, judgment, less-more, life, life-purpose, life-quotes, living, love, mind, motivation, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, smile, smiles, spirituality, stress, stressed, worry, worrying

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#17

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

tags: bible, christianity

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#18

“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

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#19

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
― Brian Tracy

tags: altruism, brian-tracy, evolution, evolve, giving, growing, kindness, life, love, people, quote, quotes, self, sharing, wisdom

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#20

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: inspirational, lessons, life, love, perspective, self, thoughts

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#21

“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: bullies, bullying, hurt, love, people, self-esteem

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#22

“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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#23

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

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#24

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: god-religion-house

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#25

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom

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#26

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#27

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: happiness, man, trouble

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#28

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

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#29

“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, mind, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#30

“Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

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