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#1

“We are all happy if we but knew it.”
― F. Dostoevskij

tags: happiness

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#2

“If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”
― Paul Arden

tags: decisions

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#3

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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#4

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, art

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#5

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

tags: anais, nin

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#6

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: criticism, critics

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#7

“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
― W. B. Yeats

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#9

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, confidence, emotion, expression, freedom, perception, self-expression

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#10

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth

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#11

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: change, perception

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#12

“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
― José Saramago, The Double

tags: double, order, perception

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#13

“I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

tags: attention, blurs, center, focus, judge, judgement, life, people, secret, self

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#14

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

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#15

“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
― Stephen Richards

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#16

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

1953 likes

#17

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: understanding, wisdom

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#18

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

tags: best, build, find, forgiveness, forgiving, heart, love, nurture, people, understand, understanding

869 likes

#19

“Why do they make things so complicated?"
"So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value."
"It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: meaning-in-life, understanding, value

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#20

“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”
― Adam Gopnik

tags: freedom, life, time, understanding

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#21

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, scars, tyler-durden

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#22

“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: charity, competence, nobility, self-respect, virtue

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#23

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: death, life, r-i-p, steve

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#24

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: speech

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#25

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
― Steve Jobs

tags: apple-computer-inc, identity, independence, inner-voice, life, steve-jobs

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#26

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: apple-computer-inc, steve-jobs

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#27

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: inspirational

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#28

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: apple, ileadership, jobs, mac, macintosh, steve

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#29

“Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: apple-computer-inc, steve-jobs

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#30

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: complex, hard, simple, thinking, truth, wisdom, worth

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#31

“You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: apple, ileadership, mac, macintosh

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