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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    Carl Sagan
    “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational
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    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions
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    C.G. Jung
    “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: life-experience
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    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth
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    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
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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
    “First say to yourself what you would be;
    and then do what you have to do.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: motivational
    696 likes

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  • #30
    Epictetus
    “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
    ― Epictetus
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