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    Julian of Norwich
    “...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.”
    ― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: agnosticism, aquinas, atheism, faith
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Thomas Merton
    “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
    ― Thomas Merton
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “My heart is so small
    it's almost invisible.
    How can You place
    such big sorrows in it?
    "Look," He answered,
    "your eyes are even smaller,
    yet they behold the world.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: spirituality
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Thomas Merton
    “Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. ”
    ― Thomas Merton
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    Thomas Merton
    “The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: heart-and-mind
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    E.E. Cummings
    “l(a
    le
    af
    fa
    ll
    s)o
    ne
    li
    ne
    ss”
    ― e.e. cummings
    tags: loneliness, poem
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    E.E. Cummings
    “i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens;only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
    ― e.e. cummings
    tags: love, poetry
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    Socrates
    “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
    ― Socrates
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
    tags: god, jesus, narrative, story, theology
    44 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32158 likes

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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31570 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
    25659 likes

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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    25070 likes



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