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#1

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

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#2

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

tags: life

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#3

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting

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#4

“No social stability without individual stability.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: society

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#5

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

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#6

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Aldous Huxley , Island

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: teaching

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#8

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

tags: technology

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#9

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

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#10

“Liberties aren't given, they are taken.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: freedom

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#11

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

tags: friends, misanthropy, people

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#12

“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
― Caspar David Friedrich

tags: asocial, misanthrope, misanthropy, people, society

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#13

“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
― André Malraux

tags: misanthropy

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#14

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
― Emil Cioran

tags: misanthropy, philosophy

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#15

“Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

tags: disappointment, misanthropy, solitude

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#16

“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

tags: idealism, misanthropy

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#17

“Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.”
― Dean Koontz

tags: instructions-for-survival, misanthropy, philosophy-of-life, simple-life

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#18

“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

tags: agoraphobia, fear, hermit, misanthrope, misanthropy, social-isolation

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#19

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage

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#20

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: forgetting, hate, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, living, strength

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#21

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: belief, bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, strength

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#22

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: forgetting, forgiving, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, moving-on, people

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#23

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: belief, direction, faith, flight, flying, flying-spirit, hope, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, living, trust, uplifting, winds, winds-of-life, wings

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#24

“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: change, growth, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, life-lessons

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#25

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: change, changes, courage, encouragement, exploration, growing, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-and-living, self-discovery

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#26

“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: broken-families, divorce, family, family-ties, forgiveness, hate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, marriage, moving-on, soul-ties, the-nature-of-family, true-family

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#27

“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”
― Judith McNaught, Remember When

tags: attitude, inspirational-quotes, life-lessons, robert-foster

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#28

“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: beauty, experience, flight, flying, freedom, growing, growth, heal, healing, hurt, hurting, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, living, living-life, pain, painful, wind, wings, wisdom, wisdom-in-life, wisdom-quotes

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#29

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: freedom, inspirational-quotes, loss, ownership

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#30

“Love.
Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio.
The real kind.
The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres.
The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish.
The kind that can forgive. The kind that believes in healing.
The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed.
The real kind of love.
It's rare and we have it...”
― Chelsea Fine, Sophie & Carter

tags: inspirational-quotes, love, relationships

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