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#1

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: antoine-de-saint-exupéry, motivation, teaching

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#3

“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”
― Elizabeth Stone

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#4

“I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: christ, christianity, inspirational, religion

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#5

“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: anxiety, peace-of-mind

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#6

“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

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#7

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

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#8

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

tags: life

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#9

“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
― Elias Canetti

tags: philosophy

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#10

“Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had “destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors.” But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.”
― Victoria Finlay, Color: A Natural History of the Palette

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#11

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#12

“A fist is not a thing but a particular state of a particular thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: general-semantics, language, linguistics, meaning, object, objectification, objectify, process, semantics, state

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#13

“... we animate every object. This is a basic instinct in man... Will this instinct ever die out? I believe not. It would be the death of art.”
― Heinrich Wölfflin

tags: animate, art, basic-instinct, object

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#14

“If you don’t know how to use an object properly, it is possible that you will use it for something other than the purpose it was intended for”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: ignorance, object, purpose

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#15

“We have the experience of a world, not in the sense of a system of relations that fully determines each event, but in the sense of an open totality whose synthesis can never be completed. We have the experience of an I, not in the sense of an absolute subjectivity, but rather one that is indivisibly unmade and remade over the course of time. The unity of the subject or of the object is not a real unity, but a presumptive unity within the horizon of experience; we must discover, beneath the idea of the subject and the idea of the object, the fact of my subjectivity and the object in the nascent state, the primordial layer where ideas and things are born.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

tags: genetic-phenomenology, object, radical-reflection, subject

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#16

“Yet the three ways the art impulse can manifest itself are: as an object, like a painting; as a gesture; and as a reproduction, such as a book. When we try to turn ourselves into a beautiful object, it is because we mistakenly consider ourselves to be an object, when a human being is really the other two: a gesture, and a reproduction of the human type... One is a reproduction of the human type--one sleeps like other humans, eats like other humans, loves like other humans, and is born and dies like all other humans. We are gestures, but we less resemble an original painting than one unit of a hundred thousand copies of a book being sold. Now the gestures we chose are revealed as cheating. Instead of being, one appears to be.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

tags: art, be, object, objectivism

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#17

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: mistakes

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#18

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery, self-knowledge

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#19

“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

tags: addiction, bravery, consciousness, courage, denial, dissociation, mindfulness, psychology, repression, self-knowledge, therapy, wellbeing

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#20

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: fear, self-knowledge

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#21

“If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: advice, envy, inspirational-quotes, jealousy, mermaid, self-awareness, self-knowledge, siren, the-nature-of-envy, warnings, wisdom-quotes

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#22

“The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”
― Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

tags: abuse, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, trauma

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#23

“I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.”
― Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer

tags: identity, self-knowledge

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#24

“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
― Mike Norton, White Mountain

tags: alone, bare, bloom, creative, creativity, cultivate, endure, faith, forest, genesis, genius, grow, hero, legend, loneliness, originality, plant, rain, solitude, weather

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#25

“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, fear, love, neglect, parental-abuse, parenting, ptsd, secrecy, self-esteem, trauma

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#26

“Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.”
― Brittany Burgunder

tags: be-your-best, be-your-own-hero, believe-in-yourself, choose-wisely, decisions, eating-disorder, eating-disorder-recovery, eating-disorders, growth, healing, healing-quotes, healing-the-emotional-self, healing-the-past, healing-trauma, inner-strength, inner-work, inspirational-quotes, motivational-quotes, move-forward, never-give-up, overcome-quotes, recovery, you-decide, your-choice, your-life

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#27

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
― Jim Morrison

tags: fashion, hair, humor, mistakes

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#28

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
― Thomas Hobbes

tags: life-lessons, mistakes

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#29

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey

tags: experience, learning-from-mistakes, mistakes, wisdom

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#30

“So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.”
― Neil Gaiman

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