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  • #1
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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  • #5
    Lao Tzu
    “To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: lao-tzu, tao, tao-te-ching, taoism
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  • #6
    Lao Tzu
    “Too many words cause exhaustion
    [In the mind or from the mouth]
    Better to abide in stillness”
    ― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
    tags: lao-tzu, stillness, tao, tao-te-ching
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  • #7
    John Lennon
    “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: god, organized-religion, religion, spirituality
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  • #8
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    tags: spirituality
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
    ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
    tags: energy, life, spirituality
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  • #10
    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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  • #11
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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  • #12
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “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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  • #13
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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  • #14
    Norman Mailer
    “Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
    ― Norman Mailer
    tags: activist, common, communism, democracy, philosophy, radical, revolution, sense, socialism
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  • #15
    Raymond Williams
    “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing”
    ― Raymond Williams
    tags: despair, hope, radical
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  • #16
    “I'd rather be inspired by my competition than be jealous.”
    ― Jamine Anderson
    tags: competition, growth, learning, radical, self-love
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  • #17
    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
    2130 likes



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