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    John Stuart Mill
    “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
    ― John Stuart Mill
    tags: contentment, frugality
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    John Stuart Mill
    “It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101563 likes

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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81811 likes

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  • #6
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
    31370 likes

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  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
    10857 likes

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  • #9
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: forgiveness
    1659 likes

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  • #10
    Nelson Mandela
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: forgiveness, inspirational
    1367 likes

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  • #11
    “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
    ― C.R. Strahan
    tags: forgiveness, pain, self-perception, survivor, victim
    1082 likes

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  • #12
    Thomas Szasz
    “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
    ― Thomas Szasz
    tags: forgiveness, inspirational, naivety, wisdom
    808 likes

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  • #13
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    “When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”
    ― Gerald G. Jampolsky
    tags: fear, forgiveness, letting-go
    562 likes

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  • #14
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy
    592 likes

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  • #15
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: listening
    1632 likes

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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: encouragement, expectations, proactivity, self-development
    730 likes

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  • #17
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
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  • #18
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
    tags: priorities
    528 likes

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  • #19
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
    tags: community, diversity
    359 likes

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    Esther Perel
    “Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.”
    ― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
    tags: love, separateness
    117 likes

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    Esther Perel
    “Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.”
    ― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
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    Esther Perel
    “Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.”
    ― Esther Perel
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  • #23
    Esther Perel
    “Love is an exercise in selective perception”
    ― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
    tags: love, relationships
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    Esther Perel
    “Love is an exercise in selective perception, even a delicious deception as well, though who cares about that in the beginning?”
    ― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
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    Esther Perel
    “because the erotic frisson is such that the kiss that you only imagine giving,can be as powerful and as enchanting as hours of actual lovemaking. As Marcel Proust said, it's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
    ― Esther Perel
    tags: empathy-psychology-life
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  • #26
    Denis de Rougemont
    “To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.”
    ― Denis De Rougemont, Love in the Western World
    tags: askesis, love, never-ending, passion, possession, present
    12 likes

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  • #27
    Benjamin Disraeli
    “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: life
    29 likes

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  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148387 likes

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  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135498 likes

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  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114361 likes

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  • #31
    John Wooden
    “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
    ― John Wooden
    436 likes



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