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#1

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
― Danielle LaPorte

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“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
― Chogyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

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“The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.”
― CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

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“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”
― Chogyam Trungpa

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#5

“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
― Paul Brandt

tags: inspiration, lyric

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#6

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

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#7

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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#8

“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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#9

“When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.”
― Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace

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“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: cynicism, disinformation, false-belief, false-gods, idols, ignorance, life-calling, life-purpose, mass-media, materialism, media-bias, misinformation, modern-society, negative-attitude, negative-people, negativity, popular-culture, public-opinion, reality-creation, reality-tunnel, skepticism, society, society-s-increasing-stupidity, soul-purpose, superficiality

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#11

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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#12

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

tags: barbara, dark, high, joy, kingsolver, life, love, rebirth, taught, tide, times, tucson

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#13

“What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.”
― Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

tags: african-literature

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#15

“Those who are not patient enough to pursue greatness chase fame.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: 10-000-hours, celebrities, celebrity, fame, famous, greatness, impatience, mastery, patience, talent

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#16

“Those who focus on goals accomplish things. Those who focus on processes achieve mastery.”
― Maxime Lagacé

tags: focus, goals, inspirational, mastery

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#17

“If you wanna speak like the gods, your ear must be open as the sky.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

tags: art, comprehend, ear, hearing, learning, listening, mastery, observing, speaking, staying-open

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#18

“Self-awareness without personal judgment becomes mastery.”
― Richie Norton

tags: awareness, judgement, mastery, personal-development, personal-growth, personal-judgement, read, self-awareness, self-mastery

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#19

“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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“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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“The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.”
― Nietzsche

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