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  • #1
    “We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
    ― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
    tags: happiness
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    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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  • #6
    “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
    ― Walter Langer
    tags: lies, paraphrased
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    Homer
    “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: heart, homer, the-iliad
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    Homer
    “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: inspirational, life
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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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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  • #12
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
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    Socrates
    “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
    ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
    tags: contentment, philosophy
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    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: death, life-and-death
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
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  • #24
    Euripides
    “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: reason-education
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

    At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: afraid, fear, grief, loneliness, loss, mourning, restlessness
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  • #27
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I hold it true, whate'er befall;
    I feel it when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.

    Verse XXVII”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: bereavement, consolation, loss, love, poetry, sorrow
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    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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  • #29
    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
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  • #30
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
    ― Mary W. Shelley
    tags: consolation, mood, solitude
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