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#1

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

tags: belief, development, evolution, intelligence, misattributed-to-einstein, new-ideas, open-mindedness, thought

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#2

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humor

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#3

“A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems

tags: existence, meaning, poetry, purpose, universe

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#4

“Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anxiety, arrogance, caring, christians, closure, communication, compassion, empathy, fear, honesty, hypocrites, judgement, kindness, listen, lost-souls, love, mercy-thompson, needing-closure, not-listening, true-followers-of-christ

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#5

“True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assuming, blaming, branding, communication, denying-feelings, dishonorable, facts, fear, gossiping, guessing, hurting-people, hypocrisy, ignoring, judgement, lack-of-communication, male-ego, not-caring, not-knowing, opinionated, overthinking, paranoia, saddness, truthfullness

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#6

“Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

tags: constellations

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#7

“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that draws all toward them, gobbling up all who come too close. Once having entered the tumultuous orbit of a black hole, nothing can break away from its passionate but fatal embrace. Though cons of teasing play may be granted the doomed, ultimately play turns to prey and all are sucked haplessly―brilliantly aglow, true, but oh so briefly so―into the fire-breathing maw of oblivion. Black holes, which have no memory, are said to contain the earliest memories of the universe, and the most recent, too, while at the same time obliterating all memory by obliterating all its embodiments. Such paradoxes characterize these strange galactic monsters, for whom creation is destruction, death life, chaos order. And darkness illumination: for, as dragons are also called worms, so black hole are known as wormholes, offering a mystical and intimate pathway to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, thus bring light as they consume it.”
― Robert Coover, A Child Again

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#8

“When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!”
― Adam S. McHugh

tags: anger, conflict, introverts, passive-aggressive

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#9

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: autumn, fall, solitude

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#10

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

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#11

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: future

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#12

“Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.”
― Roy T. Bennett

tags: action, belief, beliefs, believe, choice, choices, decision, future, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#13

“I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in the moments before I pass off into sleep—ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: joy, learning, life, meaning, truth

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#14

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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#15

“the normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century,”
― Douglas Adams

tags: weltschmerz

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#16

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, rebel

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#17

“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space and others

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#18

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: sense-of-wonder, universe

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#19

“The more we realize that we are only separated by the membrane of our own limiting and dividing beliefs, the more sand we remove, ultimately uncovering the deep and direct roots between us. Only then is society truly united, when we realize we are a whole, composed of cohesive parts.”
― Kayla Severson, Nature's 1st Gem Is Green

tags: beliefs, division, limitations, society, unity, whole

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#20

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

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#21

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#22

“It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

tags: perfect, sense

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#23

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

tags: endurance, feelings-of-weakness, happiness, life, literature, movie, sadness

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#24

“A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.”
― Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines

tags: endurance, journey, text

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#25

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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#26

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
― Rebecca Katherine Martin

tags: bizarre, feel, flawed, hope, imgaine, know, misattributed-frida-kahlo, people, person, read, strangest, think-strange, thought, world

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#27

“You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us

tags: melancholy, sad, sorrow

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#28

“Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.”
― stephen king, The Green Mile

tags: melancholy, pensive, resigned

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#29

“Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Complete Stories

tags: melancholy

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#30

“Wealth and power aren't the most important things in life. What is truly important is to have a clear conscience.”
― Eraldo Banovac

tags: clear-conscience, conscience, conscience-quotes, philosophy, philosophy-quotes, power-quotes, wealth-quotes

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