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#1

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

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#2

“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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#3

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom

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#4

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: hope, humanity, library

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#5

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#6

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

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#7

“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

tags: jealousy, materialism, want, yearning

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#8

“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

tags: ego, life

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#9

“Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: ego, human-existence, midlife

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#10

“If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.”
― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

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#11

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

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#12

“So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: lies, truth

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#13

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: ape, digital, earth, galaxy, humour, perspective, primitive, unfashionable, watches

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#14

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues

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#15

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

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#16

“Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.”
― James W. Sire

tags: ideology, revelation, truth

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#17

“Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.”
― Edward T. Hall

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#18

“Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: bonfires, candle, deadly, destruction, embryonic, fire, flames, fragility, illuminate, kings, life, light, potency, potential, power, rampage, seeds, warmth

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#19

“Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.”
― John Flanagan, The Kings of Clonmel

tags: kings

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#20

“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but he and his people were all brave and worthy conquerors. And I knew a man who sat on a magnificent throne of a big and majestic kingdom, but he was not a king at all, he was only a cowardly steward. If you are the king of a great kingdom, you will always be the only king though you live in the bushes. If you are the king of a small kingdom, you can lead your people in worth and honor and together conquer anything. And if you are not a king, though you sit on the king’s throne and drape yourself in many fine robes of silk and velvet, you are still not the king and you will never be one.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: bravery, cowardice, destiny, fake, genuine, heir-to-the-throne, king, kingdom, kings, royalty

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#21

“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3

tags: content, king-henry-vi, kings, shakespeare

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#22

“What these [personality] tests tell employers about potential employees is hard to imagine since the 'right' answer should be obvious to anyone who has ever encountered the principle of hierarchy and subordination. Do I work well with others? You bet, but never to the point where I would hesitate to inform on them for the slightest infraction. Am I capable of independent decision making? Oh yes, but I know better than to let this capacity interfere with a slavish obedience to orders . . . The real function of these tests, I decide, is to convey information not to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information being conveyed is always: You will have no secrets from us. We don't just want your muscles and that portion of your brain that is directly connected to them; we want your innermost self.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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#23

“when I enter the Netherworld will rest be scarce? I shall lie there sleeping all down the years! ‘Let my eyes see the sun and be sated with light! The darkness is hidden, how much light is there left? Sii 15’ When may the dead see the rays of the sun?”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

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