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#1

“Expectations are resentments under construction.”
― Anne Lamott

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#2

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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#3

“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

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#4

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: art, continuity, masterpiece, maturation, vision

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#5

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

tags: absence, long-distance-love, longing, love, separation

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#6

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich fromm, The Art of Being

tags: humanism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology

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#7

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#8

“We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

tags: consumerism, society

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#9

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#10

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: fear

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#11

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

tags: mental-illness, sanity, society

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#12

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
― Erich Fromm

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#13

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
― Erich Fromm

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#14

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Aristotle

tags: synergy

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#15

“Therein lies the rub.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: correct-version-of-quote, old-saying

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#16

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak

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#17

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: artist, artistic, comparison, different, freedom, future, gifted, gifts, goals, god-s-plan, happiness, jobs, joy, love, on-the-edge, personality, radical, reach-higher, rise-above, road-less-traveled, screenplay, talents, television, unique

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#18

“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: abundance-creation, advice, advise, advise-yourself, bad-luck, cynics, destiny, doom-prophets, dreams, faith-in-yourself, false-beliefs, family-relationships, fate, friendships, fulfilling-purpose, fulfilling-your-potential, fulfillment, fulfilment, happiness-choice, happiness-fulfillment-desire, happiness-positive-outlook, hopes, imagination, intention, intentional-living, joyful-living, lack-consciousness, law-of-attraction, limitations, love, manifest-your-bliss, manifestation, manifesting, miracles, miraculous, mystical, naysayers, prosperity, prosperity-consciousness, reality-creation, reality-dreams, reality-expectation, reality-tunnel, scarcity-mentality, self-belief, self-denial, self-growth, self-improvement, self-limitation, self-limiting-beliefs, self-motivation, vision

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#19

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

tags: books, films, imagination, lemmy-kilmister, movies, reading, vision

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#20

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

tags: imitation, influence, inspiration

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#21

“Infinite patience produces immediate results.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume

tags: patience, results

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#22

“What you resist, persists”
― C.G. Jung

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#23

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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#24

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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#25

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: chaos, history, history-repeating-itself, patterns

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#26

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

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#27

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#28

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source

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#29

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
― Bob Marley

tags: love

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#30

“Then your wife will. You don’t seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. Jack. [Sententiously.] That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. Algernon. Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time. Jack. For heaven’s sake, don’t try to be cynical. It’s perfectly easy to be cynical. Algernon. My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about. ”
― Oscar Wilde

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