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    Abraham Lincoln
    “All I have learned, I learned from books.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, education, lifelong-learning, lincoln, reading, self-education
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    Jim Morrison
    “Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
    ― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
    tags: distraction, entertaining, film, life
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    Jim Morrison
    “I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
    ― Jim Morrison, Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    John Lennon
    “I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
    It's just getting out of one car, and into another.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: death, spirituality
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    Morrissey
    “I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil. Such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you -have I failed?”
    ― Morrissey
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
    ― Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus / Traeg
    tags: eloquence, humour, speech
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”
    ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    tags: practice, talent
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    Richard Rohr
    “Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.”
    ― Richard Rohr, The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective
    tags: catholicism, christianity, psychology
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    Richard Rohr
    “We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
    ― Richard Rohr
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    John Lennon
    “I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.”
    ― John Lennon
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    John Lennon
    “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: art, beatles, confidence, ego, music, self-confidence
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    Lao Tzu
    “My teachings are easy to understand
    and easy to put into practice.
    Yet your intellect will never grasp them,
    and if you try to practice them,you'll fail.

    My teachings are older than the world.
    How can you grasp their meaning?

    If you want to know me,
    Look inside your heart.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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    Kurt Cobain
    “I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: gender-stereotypes, sexuality
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    Kurt Cobain
    “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: activism, dissent, protest, truth-telling
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
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    Kurt Cobain
    “I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: companionship, facade, friendship, genuine, kurt-cobain, shallow, superficial, true-blue
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    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
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    Richard Rohr
    “Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.”
    ― Richard Rohr
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    Richard Rohr
    “People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.”
    ― Richard Rohr
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    Frank Zappa
    “Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music-religion
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    Richard Rohr
    “A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.”
    ― Richard Rohr
    tags: mysticism
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    Richard Rohr
    “It is sadly true that most institutions and nations admire and reward sins of the "spirit," and various forms of arrogance and greed often lead to promotions and praise. But pride, ambition, and vanity are still pride, ambition, and vanity; they do not stop being capital sins because someone is pope or president. "Greed is good" in America, extravagant bonuses are envied and imitated, and careerism is rampant among the clergy . . . Sins of the flesh, however, carry shame and guilt and can always be used to bring anybody down in church, culture, or the state.”
    ― Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
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    Richard Rohr
    “every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”
    ― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
    tags: forgiveness, spirituality
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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    Richard Rohr
    “The ego hates losing – even to God.”
    ― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
    tags: flesh, selfishness, surrender
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    Richard Rohr
    “Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.”
    ― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
    tags: confrontation, discipleship, leadership
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    Richard Rohr
    “The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.”
    ― Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
    tags: god, prayer
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    Richard Rohr
    “Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!”
    ― Richard Rohr, Radical Grace: Daily Meditations
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