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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom
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    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
    tags: introspection, self-awareness
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: inspirational, thoughtful
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: religion
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: eternal-questions, love, power
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: future, happiness, space
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: eat-pray-love, elizabeth-gilbert, inspiration
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    Florence Welch
    “It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back, So shake him off.”
    ― Florence Welch
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    Florence Welch
    “Sometimes I wish for falling
    Wish for the release
    Wish for falling through the air
    To give me some relief
    Because falling's not the problem
    When I'm falling I'm in peace
    It's only when I hit the ground
    It causes all the grief”
    ― Florence Welch
    tags: falling, florence-and-the-machine
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery, self-knowledge
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: faith
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World
    tags: belief, experience
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: pleasure
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: i, legion, man, plurality
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: money, struggle, wealth
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Common aim is stronger than blood.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: aim, goal, goals, goals-in-life
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
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  • #30
    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: philosophy, spirituality
    63 likes



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