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    Dan Millman
    “Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.

    - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.

    - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure

    - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.”
    ― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, kindness
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Two men looked out from prison bars,
    One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
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    Maurice Young
    “To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.”
    ― Maurice Young
    tags: dedication, inspiration, inspirational, mastery, mastery-of-skills, motivational, personal-development, success
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  • #6
    “You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success.”
    ― Chef Jiro
    tags: mastery, mastery-of-skills, success
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  • #7
    “A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: brave-quotes, conquer-quotes, courage-quotes, faith-quotes, fear-quotes, fearless-quotes, gallant, greatness-quotes, inner-power-quotes, inner-strength-quotes, inner-world-quotes, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-for-women, inspirational-quotes-motivation, master-quotes, mastery-of-oneself, mastery-of-skills, mastery-quotes, motivational-inspirational, motivational-quotations, motivational-quote-of-the-day, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-women, overcomer-quotes, overcoming-adversity-quotes, overcoming-challenges-quotes, overcoming-fear-quotes, overcoming-quotes, perseverance-quotes, persistence-quotes, resilience-quotes, rise-above, rise-quotes, success-quotes, victory-quotes
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    Rasheed Ogunlaru
    “Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.”
    ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
    tags: athletes-and-attitude, business-quotes, champion, champion-quotes, elite, inspirational-quotes, leadership, loss, master, mastering-things, mastering-your-craft, mastery-of-oneself, mastery-of-skills, motivational-quotes, rasheed-ogunlaru, rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes, sports-quotes, success-quotes, victory, victory-quotes, winning-and-losing, winning-quotes
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    Ufuoma Apoki
    “Patience, my friend;
    Once again, I say, Patience.
    In an era 'plagued' with speed, doggedness of character and drudgery of persistence is the only guarantee to mastery.”
    ― Ufuoma Apoki
    tags: character, mastery, mastery-of-skills, patience, patience-and-timing, persistence
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    Pema Chödrön
    “nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know
    …nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. it just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
    tags: when-things-fall-apart
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    Vera Nazarian
    “A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: aid, assistance, breaking, broken, broken-glass, commuity, esteem, glass, help, helping, helping-others, not-alone, pieces, recovery, self, self-esteem, self-help, shattered, shattered-glass, support, together, togetherness, trash, treasure, value, vase, worth
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    Naomi Novik
    “I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape”
    ― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
    tags: bonds, help, humor, inspirational, rescue, temeraire, togetherness
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    Emily Henry
    “I always like that thought, the way two people really did seem to grow into one. Or at least two overlapping parts, trees with tangled roots.”
    ― Emily Henry, Beach Read
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  • #14
    “For a beautiful peaceful world, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.”
    ― Suzy Kassem
    tags: human-family, kindness, love, otherness, peaceful-world, suzy-kassem, togetherness, unity, world-peace
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    Tatjana Ostojic
    “You blossom in me,
    I spread my wings through you.
    It is your merit to be earned
    for whatever I become.”
    ― Tatjana Ostojic, Baghdad Nights
    tags: love, love-poem, love-poetry, poetry-of-love, quotes-about-love, togetherness
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    Elora Canne
    “The constructs of our relationships are like outdated crumbling castles. They need to be reinforced to withstand the rigors of evolvement so they can match the modern environment in which they find themselves.”
    ― Elora Canne
    tags: inspirational, love, relationships, togetherness
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    Rachel Macy Stafford
    “You halved my pain and I halved yours: it’s together for each other that we find strength to ask, learn, and never fold up and disappear.”
    ― Rachel Macy Stafford
    tags: friendship, motherhood, pain, perserverance, positive-thinking, strength, togetherness
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    Jessica Marie Baumgartner
    “Part of coming together as a nation means accepting what has been done, rebuilding, helping those harmed, and finding power in forgiveness and redemption.”
    ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
    tags: acceptance, connection, forgiveness, healing, helping, nation, power, rebuilding, redemption, togetherness
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “My world is full of beauty,
    but you avert your eyes.

    My world is full of light,
    but you only worship the dark.

    My world is filled with song,
    but you exalt silence.

    My world is filled with delight,
    but you cut throats that ring with laughter.

    My world is adorned with exquisite art,
    but you smash sculptures,
    destroying ancient civilisations.

    In my world,
    people rejoice with one another
    and share each other’s burdens,
    but you only preach vanity and greed.

    What do you know of courage?
    What do you know of resilience?

    My world is so vast,
    it welcomes even you—
    for your drop of hatred
    will always be absolved
    in our ocean of love.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri, God, Does Humanity Exist?
    tags: community, courage, hatred, light, love-wins, one-love, resilience, togetherness, unity, world
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “There is so much of me
    in all of you.
    You are a way
    for me to know myself.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: community, harmony, identity, knowing, oneness, philosophy, together, togetherness, understanding, unity
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    Robin Wall Kimmerer
    “There are some aches witch hazel can’t assuage. For those, we need each other.”
    ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    tags: aches, community, healing, love, pain, togetherness, witch-hazel
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “I refuse the definitions of love ⁣
    in dictionaries and philosophy,⁣
    for today I know love.⁣
    I had sought you for years, ⁣
    but find that you were always the seeker⁣
    and I the sought. ⁣
    I suddenly appeared ⁣
    reverent before you⁣
    to bear witness to your beauty, ⁣
    to dance in your silky attention,⁣
    but you were always my wild destiny, ⁣
    my heart’s pilgrimage—⁣
    the meeting place of all my joy⁣
    and self-forgetting.⁣
    When I first loved you, ⁣
    life for me had just begun.⁣
    I look forward to so much with you—⁣
    our togetherness in a world of wounds, ⁣
    our children awaiting birth.⁣
    I look forward to so much life with you, ⁣
    and yet, I am perfectly content ⁣
    with this moment here.⁣
    It matters not to me if I die ⁣
    before finishing this poem,⁣
    for today I know love.⁣
    For today,⁣
    I am free.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: destiny, freedom, love, love-poems, lover, marriage, relationship, soulmate, togetherness, wedding
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  • #23
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
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    Jack Kornfield
    “Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.”
    ― Jack Kornfield
    tags: jack-kornfield, life, love, wisdom
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  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel
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  • #27
    “As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth and my conscience is my only leader. This is the only way to peace and justice on earth. To always do the right thing, be the right person, and stand with whoever is right always and forever.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: attitude, citizen-of-the-world, conscience, earth, earth-peace, global-citizen, global-citizenship, god, humanism, humanist, humanity, justice, leader, leadership, love, pacifist, peace, peace-on-earth, person, right, stand, stand-up, standing-up-for-what-is-right, truth, world, world-citizen, world-citizenship, world-peace
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