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#1

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: paraphrased

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#2

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: love, men, relationships

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#3

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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#4

“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

tags: infatuation, life, love, self-sacrifice

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#5

“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#6

“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#7

“The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#8

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#9

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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#10

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple

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#11

“The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: humans, hypocrisy, hyprocritical, jeremy-griffith

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#12

“We can transition from being victims of the human condition to becoming secure, sound, effective managers of our world”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, new-world

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#13

“A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: fresh-start, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, psychological, psychology

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#14

“Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: capitalism, car, future-inspirational, hope, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, leadership-speech, materialism, materialism-versus-spiritualism, soul

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#15

“We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, love, mother, mothers-love, unconditional-love-quotes

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#16

“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: biology, charles-darwin, human-condition, science

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#17

“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: hypocrisy, hyprocritical, jeremy-griffith

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#18

“Love is unconditional selflessness”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, love, love-quotes, truth-about-love, unconditional-love, unconditional-love-and-wisdom

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#19

“When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#20

“Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.”
― Jeremy Griffith, Beyond the Human Condition

tags: jeremy-griffith, reconciliation, reconciliation-of-opposites, religion, religion-and-philoshophy, science, science-and-religion, science-vs-religion

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#21

“While religious assurances such as 'God loves you' could comfort us, we ultimately had to understand why we are loveable”
― Jeremy Griffith, A Species in Denial

tags: god-loves-you, jeremy-griffith, loveable, religion, religious-beliefs

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#22

“Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: freedom, jeremy-griffith, love, mother, mothers-love, nurturing, unconditional-love

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#23

“If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that–so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: amazon, amazon-river, earth, environment, environmentalism, jeremy-griffith, okavango-delta, redwoods, self-destruction, self-discovery, snow-leopard, transformation

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#24

“The human condition is the immensely mentally insecure and psychologically distressed state that all humans have suffered from as a result of a clash between our species’ original non-understanding, dictatorial, instinctive orientations to the world, and our newer fully conscious mind that needs to understand the world to operate.”
― Jeremy Griffith, The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.

tags: human-condition, psychology, science

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#25

“Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: feel-good, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, pseudo, pseudoidealism, selfishness

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#26

“The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition — our human condition.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: agony-of-human, human-condition, human-nature, jeremy-griffith, understand-life, why-are-we-the-way-we-are

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#27

“While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the brink of madness”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: jeremy-griffith, religion, religious-faith

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#28

“Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: biology, jeremy-griffith, love, men, quote, sexes, women

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#29

“The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: alienation-versus-humanity, civilisation, culture, future, human-condition, inequality, instability, jeremy-griffith, terrorism

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#30

“The playwright George Bernard Shaw also warned of how difficult it is to introduce a new paradigm of thinking — especially one that dares to confront the historically unbearably confronting and off-limits subject of the human condition — when he said that ‘All great truths begin as blasphemies’ (Annajanska, 1919).”
― Jeremy Griffith, THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!

tags: biology, human-behaviour, human-condition-jeremy-griffith, psychology

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