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#1

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception

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#2

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
― Sophia Loren

tags: aeshetics, age, aging, creativity, youth

455 likes

#3

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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#4

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
― Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

tags: anger, caring-too-much, change, cruelty, damage, depression, dismissing, envy, games, heart, hurting-others, ignoring, jealousy, not-caring, pain, rejecting, resentment, retaliation, revenge, seeking-revenge, self-abuse, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-help, self-worth, sorrow, spiritual-growth, unkindness, vengance

1244 likes

#5

“BEWARE OF THOSE

Beware of those who are bitter,
For they will never allow you
To enjoy your fruit.

Beware of those who criticize you
When you deserve some praise for an achievement,
For they secretly desire to be worshiped.

Beware of those who are needy or stingy,
For they would rather sting you
Than give you anything.

Beware of those who are always hungry,
For they will feed you to the wolves
Just to get paid.

Beware of those who speak negatively
About everything and everybody,
For a negative person will never say
A positive thing about you.

Beware of those who are bored
And not passionate about life,
For they will bore you with reasons
For not living.

Beware of those who are too focused with
Polishing and beautifying their outer shells,
For they lack true substance to understand
That genuine beauty is in the heart
That resides inside.

Beware of those who step in the path of your dreams,
For they only dream to have the ability
To take half your steps.

Beware of those who steer you away
From your heart’s true happiness,
For it would make them happy to see you
Steer yourself next to them,
Sitting with both your hearts bitter.

Those who are critical don’t like being criticized,
And those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

And finally,
Beware of those who tell you to BEWARE.
They are too aware of everything –
And live alone, scared.

Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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#6

“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: accusation, assumption, bias, blame, extroversion, extroverts, fear, guilt, innocence, introversion, introverts, judgment, judgmental, judgmentality, people, skepticism, social-norms, society, unconscious-mind

301 likes

#7

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: smile

1502 likes

#8

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

tags: inspirational

14554 likes

#9

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

886 likes

#10

“Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

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#11

“Nationalism is what makes some people think they are better than others and just as often inspires delusions of superiority.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

tags: delusions, inspires, nationalism, superiority

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#12

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: authenticity, caring, caring-for-others, caring-too-much, compassion, damaged-goods, damaged-people, damaged-souls, dysfunctional-society, dysfunctional-world, emotional, emotional-intelligence, emotional-pain, emotionally-disabled, empath, empathic, empaths, empathy, empathy-diversity, feeling, feelings, highly-sensitive-person, hot-mess, humane, humaneness, new-age-quotes, new-world, sensitive, sensitiveness, sensitivity, society, society-humanity, society-problem, tears-crying, weakness, weakness-and-strength, weakness-quotes

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#13

“It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.”
― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

tags: anarchy, conduct-of-life, life, rules, society

107 likes

#14

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society

1500 likes

#15

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression

727 likes

#16

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: arriving, cities, city, destination, empty, home, leave, leaving, left, lose, love, new, streets, touring, travel, traveller, travelling, vagabond, wanderer, wanderlust

524 likes

#17

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43888 likes

#18

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

2074 likes

#19

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: government, guns, military, military-budget, politics, poverty, war, weapons

1287 likes

#20

“Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

tags: envy, freedom, hate, people

373 likes

#21

“The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider to be less fortunate than themselves. This has become the standard for measuring the goodness of a person. But this is erroneous. It is in fact very easy to be good to those whom you consider to be less fortunate than yourself. You know what's difficult? Being good to those you envy! That is what's difficult to do! People believe themselves to practice equality because they are good to those who are lesser than they are, but this is not equality if they do not show the same amount of goodness to the people who happen to be more than they are. I always look at how a person treats those who are more than they are, and that is how I determine the goodness in a person. Because the other option is just too easy. The other option comes with all benefit and no loss.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: bad-people, envious, envy, equality, good-people, goodness, goodness-quotes, guidance, the-good-and-the-bad, wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-quotes

11 likes

#22

“Storms were created when love was bound; set it free, and it could break barriers, and pave new paths.”
― Dianna Hardy, Reign Of The Wolf

tags: breaking-barriers, freedom-of-choice, freedom-quotes, love-quotes, storms-of-life-quotes, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love

6 likes

#23

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

812 likes

#24

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice

1114 likes

#25

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: logic, people, prejudice, pride, relationships, vanity

941 likes

#26

“Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
― Kofi Annan

tags: ignorance, intolerance, prejudice, racism, tolerance

404 likes

#27

“Fraud is the daughter of greed.”
― Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game

tags: antiques, fraud, greed, lovejoy

37 likes

#28

“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: advantage, alienation, alienation-versus-humanity, art, artist, authenticity, awkward, brain, compromise, craft, creative, fierce, genuine, humanity, humanity-versus-alienation, imagination, introversion, isolation, life, loner, originality, perspective, purity, social, socially-awkward, solitude, writing

551 likes

#29

“To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.”
― Epicurus

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