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“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
― Jim Carrey

tags: 2014, 7-7, 77, acceptance, actor, actors, address, allow, be-you, be-yourself, commencement-address, commencement-speech, famous-people, glory, graduate, graduation, hide, hiding, inspirational, inspiring, jim-carey, jim-carrey, light, maharishi, maharishi-university, mum, pleaser, pleasing, pleasing-others, risk, shine, shine-bright, shine-on, shine-your-light

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#2

“To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: controversial, differences, honesty, making-sense-of-the-world, negative, pleasing-others, positive, real, risky, social-status

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#3

“In trying to please all, he had pleased none.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

tags: pleasing-others

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#4

“We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.”
― Don Roff

tags: beastmode, chainsaw, grab, humor, inspirational, motivational, motivational-quotes, opportunity, opportunity-knocks, opportunity-quotes, waiting, waiting-quotes

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#5

“My actions are my only true belongings.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

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#6

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#7

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#8

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#9

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#10

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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#11

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#12

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#13

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#14

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

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#15

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts

tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom

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#16

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen

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#17

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
― Alan Watts

tags: life, play, work

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#18

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
― Alan Watts

tags: process, time

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#19

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

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#20

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#21

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#22

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

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#23

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: leadership

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#24

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: good-leader, leader, leaders, people

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#25

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#26

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#27

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#28

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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#29

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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#30

“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
― Ann Landers

tags: character, motivational

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