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    Epictetus
    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: anxiety, mankind
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    Epictetus
    “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Epictetus
    “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Epictetus
    “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: control, freedom, goal, happiness, life, philosophy
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    Epictetus
    “Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Epictetus
    “You are a little soul carrying around a corpse”
    ― Epictetus
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: romantic
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    Jane Austen
    “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    tags: humor
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    Jane Austen
    “One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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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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    Lao Tzu
    “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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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: heartache, love
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    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: cruelty, hell, man
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    Martin Luther
    “Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.”
    ― Martin Luther
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: art, beauty, music, wonder
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    Albert Einstein
    “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: art, cybernetics, science
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    Aristotle
    “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: art, philosophy
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  • #30
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
    ― Mikhail Bakunin
    734 likes



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