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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: challenges, coping, thought-for-the-day
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    T.S. Eliot
    “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
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    Thomas Merton
    “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: courage, faith, hope, possibility
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    ― sylvia plath
    tags: goals
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, woman
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everything I know, I know because of love.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: fiction, love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: evil, live
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “اننا نبحث عن السعادة غالباً وهي قريبة منّا، كما نبحث في كثير من الأحيان عن النظارة وهي فوق عيوننا.”
    ― ليو تولستوي
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: death, god
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: leo-tolstoy, pierre, russia, war-and-peace
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal
    tags: human-nature, love
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    Osho
    “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
    Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
    So if you love a flower, let it be.
    Love is not about possession.
    Love is about appreciation.”
    ― Osho
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  • #27
    Osho
    “Experience life in all possible ways --
    good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
    summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
    Don't be afraid of experience, because
    the more experience you have, the more
    mature you become.”
    ― Osho
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  • #28
    Osho
    “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
    ― Osho
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    Albert Ellis
    “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
    ― Albert Ellis
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    Albert Ellis
    “There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy.”
    ― Albert Ellis
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