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    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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    Lewis Carroll
    “IN THE END… We only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we waited too long to make.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish.
    Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.”
    ― Rumi
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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  • #5
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
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  • #6
    Tom Hiddleston
    “We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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  • #8
    C.G. Jung
    “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    ― Carl Jung
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  • #9
    “If a string is in a knot,
    Patience will untie it.
    Patience can do many things—
    Did you ever try it?

    If it was sold at any shop
    I should like to buy it.
    But you and I must find our own—
    No other can supply it.”
    ― Anna M. Pratt
    tags: patience
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  • #10
    William Blake
    “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: infinity, perception
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  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
    "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: pp-191
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  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
    "And are you?"
    "No. That's where it all falls down, of course."
    "Pity", said Arthur. "It sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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  • #13
    Mary Pickford
    “If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
    ― Mary Pickford
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  • #14
    William Arthur Ward
    “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
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  • #15
    William Arthur Ward
    “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
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  • #16
    William Arthur Ward
    “The adventure of life is to learn.
    The purpose of life is to grow.
    The nature of life is to change.
    The challenge of life is to overcome.
    The essence of life is to care.
    The opportunity of like is to serve.
    The secret of life is to dare.
    The spice of life is to befriend.
    The beauty of life is to give.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: inspirational, leadership
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    William Arthur Ward
    “Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: inspirational, just-do-it, live-life, make-a-difference
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    William Arthur Ward
    “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: appreciate, appreciation, grateful, gratefulness, taken-for-granted, taking-for-granted, thankful, thankfulness
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: be-yourself, love, self-actualization
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  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be empty of worrying.
    Think of who created thought!

    Why do you stay in prison
    When the door is so wide open?”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational
    1695 likes



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