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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
    tags: appreciation, joy-of-life
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Eugene Debs, Writings of Eugene V. Debs
    tags: anti-militarism, anti-nationalism, compassion, cosmopolitan, humanity, universal-love
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    Lisa Schroeder
    “Was it hard?" I ask.
    Letting go?"

    Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
    ― Lisa Schroeder
    tags: heartbreak, life, love
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “Global harmony is only the reflection of humankind's internal harmony.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity
    tags: brainy-quotes, global-harmony, harmony, human-progress, inner-harmony, internal-conflict, self-realization, spirituality, world-peace
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
    tags: brainy-quotes, harmony, human-nature, human-progress, humanity, humanity-and-society, inspiring, love-and-kindness, philosopher, philosophy, progress, purpose-of-species, sage, sage-quotes, sapiens, scientist, social-development, social-reform, thinker, wisdom
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “We are a stupid species with smart phones.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar
    tags: brainy-quotes, human-progress, humanity, pearls-of-wisdom, sage-quotes, smartphones, species
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    Anne Frank
    “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility
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    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: beauty, hope, inspirational, joy
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    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
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    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Anne Frank
    “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed
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    Anne Frank
    “Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: insightful
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    Anne Frank
    “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: happiness, literature
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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    Mary Pipher
    “I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)”
    ― Mary Pipher
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    Mary Pipher
    “Social change is a million individual acts of kindness; culture change is a million subversive acts of resistance.”
    ― Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
    tags: culture, culture-change, inspirational, social-change, social-psychology, subversion, subversive, subversive-ideas
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    “Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.”
    ― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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    “Kindness is the only strength there is.”
    ― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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    “Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”
    ― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
    tags: compassion, spirituality
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    “Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.”
    ― Gregory Boyle , Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    “Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.”
    ― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
    tags: gospel, love, success
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    “It's my first day teaching," I say to her, "Give me some advice."

    "Two things," she says, "One: know all their names by tomorrow. Two: It's more important that they know you than that they know what you know.”
    ― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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    “There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.”
    ― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
    tags: compassion, empathy, love
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    “The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place—with the outcast and those relegated to the margins.”
    ― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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    “Just assume the answer to every question is compassion.”
    ― Gregory Boyle
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    Iyanla Vanzant
    “Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.”
    ― Iyanla Vanzant
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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