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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“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

“Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.
[Trans. Purohit Swami]”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

“What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It's not your job to change these people, but it's your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they attempt to rip me, they can't. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Why are we so easily swayed by facts forwarded by email? Why do so many Indians believe that the Taj Mahal was originally a temple called Tejo Mahalaya? Why do so many of us instantly believe and immediately proselytize that ‘India has never invaded any country in her last 1,000 years of history’ or that ‘The word “navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit navgath’ without even pausing to ask: ‘Is any of this actually true?”
― Sidin Vadukut, The Sceptical Patriot: Exploring the Truths Behind the Zero and Other Indian Glories

“Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.—Tomé”
― William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Essential Kahlil Gibran: Aphorisms And Maxims

“Calmness—a lack of anxiety—empowers you with the freedom to do as you please.”
― Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― James Morcan, Genius Intelligence

“it’s only when something is expressed in numbers that it becomes “known”.”
― Mike Hockney, The God Equation

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
They have a world to win.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“To fall in love successfully, you don’t want too much self-awareness.”
― David Dean Shulman, Tamil: A Biography

“(Hallucination of particularly vile smells is called cacosmia.)”
― Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations

“not so long ago, all humans heard voices—generated internally, from the right hemisphere of the brain, but perceived (by the left hemisphere) as if external, and taken as direct communications from the gods. Sometime around 1000 B.C., Jaynes proposed, with the rise of modern consciousness, the voices became internalized and recognized as our own.21”
― Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations

“Some substances rarely if ever cause death by overdose – cannabis and LSD, for example.”
― David J. Nutt, Drugs - without the hot air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs

“we were taking drugs long before we were human”.”
― David J. Nutt, Drugs - without the hot air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs

“The condition that seems to benefit most commonly from the use of cannabis is multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease characterised by fatigue, muscle weakness, incontinence, muscle spasms and chronic pain.”
― David J. Nutt, Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimizing the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs

“If in doubt, don’t drink and drug.”
― David J. Nutt, Drugs - without the hot air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs

“Having low numbers of dopamine receptors, for example, is associated with alcoholism and cocaine use.”
― David J. Nutt, Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimizing the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs