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#1

“Human beings are midway between the size of a living cell and the size of Earth.”
― Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine

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#2

“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adaptation, anger, attitude, bullied, bully, bullying, confidence, confidence-and-attitude, encouragement, growth, inspirational, introvert, loneliness, motivational, outcast, pain, youth

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#3

“As empaths, our high level of sensitivity means that we are prone to feeling like eternal outsiders who are in the world but not quite of the world.”
― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing

tags: empath, empaths, highly-sensitive-people, intuition, outcast, outsider, rejection, sensitivity

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#4

“People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: conformity, different, lonely, misfit, nonconformist, outcast, rejected, society

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#5

“I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: fear, outcast, outsider, social-phobia

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#6

“If you’re going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you’re going to be an outcast. It’s not for the faint of heart, it’s not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit.”
― Paul Russell, Immaculate Blue

tags: outcast

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#7

“Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: bully, care, caring, compassion, empathy, faith, forgiveness, friendship, genius, grace, hate, hope, love, mercy, opposition, outcast, pity, rebellion, rejection, relationship, spite, strength, sympathy, truth, unconditional-love, underdog

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#8

“We were castoffs and slaves, orphans and unwanteds and used-to-be princesses...and we were mighty.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Valiant

tags: orphans

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#9

“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference.”
― James W Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

tags: ancestors, death-and-dying, ghosts, lies-my-teacher-told-me, spirits

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#10

“Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

tags: ancestors, ancestry, build, building-blocks, globe-trotting, inspiration, journey, life-experience, morocco, sahara, sahara-desert, sand, spiritual-journey, trek, trekking

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#11

“My forebears played a significant part in making me who I am. I honor their legacy. I will never forget what they gave me. I will love them until the day I die. And no one can take them away from me.”
― Laurence Overmire, The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland

tags: ancestors, death, genealogy, gifts, legacy, love

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#12

“Breathing in, I see all my ancestors in me: my mineral ancestors, plant ancestors, mammal ancestors, and human ancestors. My ancestors are always present, alive in every cell of my body, and I play a part in their immortality.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

tags: ancestors, buddhishm, legacy, life, living

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#13

“Every succeeding generation has the opportunity to heal the wounds of the past.”
― Laurence Overmire, A Revolutionary American Family: The McDonalds of Somerset County, New Jersey

tags: ancestors, descendants, genealogy, generations, past, wounds

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#14

“No matter who our ancestors are, our own personal and monumental task is to become the best person that we can possibly be - someone in whom our own descendants in times to come can take great pride and find inspiration.”
― Laurence Overmire, Digging for Ancestral Gold: The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest

tags: ancestors, best-self, descendants, future, genealogy, past

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#15

“Our stories make us who we are. And each story has its own purpose and its own reward. Each story rings true and each story is worthy of the ages. There is no such thing as an insignificant life.”
― Laurence Overmire, New York Minute: An Actor's Memoir

tags: ages, ancestors, genealogy, human-worth, insignificance, life, stories

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#16

“Oh Child

Look within

Find your ForeMothers

Find them

Find them”
― Malebo Sephodi

tags: african-feminism, afrifem, ancestors, black-women-quotes, feminism, self-awareness, self-care

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#17

“We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

tags: ancestors, ancestry, culture-identity, empowerment, industrialization, kindred, traditions

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#18

“I am everyone who played a role in creating me...my ancestors.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

tags: ancestors

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#19

“Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: ancestors, god, imagination, limits, religion

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#20

“These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one's self.

To mind one's own business.

Not to want to manage other people's affairs.

To avoid curiosity.

To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.

To pass over the mistakes of others.

To accept insults and injuries.

To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.

To be kind and gentle even under provocation.

Never to stand on one's dignity.

To choose always the hardest.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

tags: acceptance, bossy, cheerful, curiosity, difficulty, dignity, dislike, forgiveness, forgotten, gentle, gossip, humble, humility, injury, insult, kind, mistakes, provocation, quiet, rejection, selfish

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#21

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

tags: beloved, christianity, faith, feelings, identity, rejection, self, spiritual-life, spiritual-warfare, success, temptation, truth

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#22

“When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: bravery, communication, confidence, disapproval, expressing-yourself, honesty, love, no-regrets, openess, permission, regrets, rejection, soul, speaking-your-mind, talking, truth, voice

481 likes

#23

“Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: boldness, courage, creativity, detrimental, free-thinker, individuality, persecution, rejection, ridicule, risks, well-being

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#24

“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: happiness, inspirational, life, rejection

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#25

“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: differences, different, exclusion, impoverished, lesbians, outcasts, poor, povetry, race, racism, rejection, social-acceptance, society, survival, survival-skills, women

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#26

“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.”
― E.L. James

tags: pain, rejection

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#27

“girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them

besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me

and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out

but not
in
mine

thank
you.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: boring, bukowski, death, dull, funny, girls, hell, irony, life, love, misogyny, poem, poetry, rejection, sexuality, women

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#28

“I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: rejection

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#29

“I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.”
― Billy Joel

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#30

“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: dehumanization, differences, different, discrimination, economics-society, institutional-oppression, institutionalized, misfits, outsiders, profit, rejection, social-outcasts, society, surplus, survival-of-the-fittest

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