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#1

“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, assumption, change, compassion, inspirational, judging, kindness, life, respect, success

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#2

“I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: balance, change, hard, love, scary, someone

519 likes

#3

“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: appreciation, change, gratitude, inspirational, life, live-now, motivational, success, today

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#4

“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, anger, change, grudges, inspirational, life, living-in-the-present, motivational, poison, resentment, seize-the-day, soul, success

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#5

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: change, complacency, inspirational

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#6

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

tags: change, mind, summer, winter

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#7

“We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!”
― Graham Chapman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen

tags: change, humor, nonsense, silly-quotes

167 likes

#8

“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

tags: change, hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, past

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#9

“We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, appreciation, change, life, motivational, seize-the-day

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#10

“people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character”
― Chad Kultgen, The Lie

tags: change, character, people

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#12

“Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

tags: change, people

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#13

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.

[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: change, peace

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#14

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield

1238 likes

#15

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: be-yourself, change, choices, compassion, greatest-version, happiness, helping, love, relationships, success

1095 likes

#16

“It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.

Ignorance is our deepest secret.

And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.

Here is a quick test:

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.

It will do both of you good.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: adapt, adaptability, assimilate, assimilation, beliefs, change, discovery, ignorance, ignorant, incorporating, introspection, learning, mutability, new, new-thought, open, open-mind, open-minded, open-mindedness, ponder, question, questioning, questions, re-evaluating, receptive, rethink, rethinking, secret, think, thinking, wise

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#17

“If you need to find out who is your friend
among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.”
― Toba Beta

tags: conflict, foe, friend, resolution, stimulation

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#18

“Every form of human conflict may be reduced to precisely the same pattern of mental events. We are all totalitarian despots over our own thoughts, bound to keep our minds in complete control. Control requires security. Security demands war. All war is the macrocosmic residue of neural synapses struggling to maintain their rhythm.”
― Bō Jinn

tags: conflict, psychology, war

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#19

“Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: accept, argue, calm, complain, condemn, conflict, controversy, debate, disagreement, discuss, dispute, fight, foot-in-mouth, forgive, mind, misunderstanding, peace, piece-of-mind, quarrel, quiet, rag, rage, regrets, remain-silent, row, subside, talk, tongue, whitewash, words

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#20

“Good men are remembered for their friends. Great men are remembered for their enemies. The greatest men are those who turn their enemies into friends.”
― m. todd gallowglas, Judge of Dooms

tags: conflict

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#21

“We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.”
― Steve Goodier

tags: agreement, conflict, conflict-resolution, differences, different-perspective, diversity, getting-along, harmony, opinions

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#22

“On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.”
― Nagaru Tanigawa

tags: challenges, conflict, humans, itsuki-koizumi, reality

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#23

“Everyone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it early and go on to struggle with it for the rest of your life, almost until it eventually becomes an old enemy that you lose the will to fight or hate anymore. And just as every person has their own void, their own haunt or their own unanswered question...they also have the power to turn it into a legacy every bit as profound as they make it.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: conflict, identity, inner-struggle, issues, legacy, life, long-term, people, personal, problems

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#24

“Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth.”
― Franco Santoro

tags: conflict, grievances, healing, peace, transparency

8 likes

#25

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

10247 likes

#26

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
― Henry Winkler

tags: communication, relationships

983 likes

#27

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

1723 likes

#28

“Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

tags: communication, remaining-silent, reticence

594 likes

#29

“Self-consciousness kills communication.”
― Rick Steves

tags: advice, communication, confidence, self-consciousness, speech, travel

303 likes

#30

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

tags: communication

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#31

“I tried all kinds of approaches: sexy, friendly, intimidating—nothing worked. I’m starting to think there’s an invisible force field that prevents honest communication between X and Y chromosomes.”
― Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland

tags: communication, humor

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