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    A.C. Bhaktivedanta
    “Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”
    ― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita
    tags: eastern-philosophy, hindu, inspirational, religious, spirituality
    179 likes

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    “Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
    ― Martin Mull
    tags: family, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so. ”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Shunryu Suzuki
    “Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
    ― Shunryu Suzuki
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Plato
    “The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
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    Plato
    “There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
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    Plato
    “You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken....Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?

    We cannot....Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts....”
    ― Plato, The Republic
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    W.C. Fields
    “You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Deb Caletti
    “the mind is a tyrant”
    ― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: misattributed
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    H. Richard Niebuhr
    “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
    ― H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America
    tags: liberal-theology
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    H. Richard Niebuhr
    “Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”
    ― H. Richard Niebuhr
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Frederick Salomon Perls
    “I do my thing and you do your thing.
    I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
    And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
    You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
    If not, it can't be helped.”
    ― Fritz Perls
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    Kabir
    “Are you looking for me?
    I am in the next seat.
    My shoulder is against yours.
    you will not find me in the stupas,
    not in Indian shrine rooms,
    nor in synagogues,
    nor in cathedrals:
    not in masses,
    nor kirtans,
    not in legs winding around your own neck,
    nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
    When you really look for me,
    you will see me instantly —
    you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
    Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
    He is the breath inside the breath.”
    ― Kabir
    tags: ecstatic-poetry, god, spirituality
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
    tags: fake-friends, friends, secret, secrets, shopaholic
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
    tags: ambitions, bad-friends, boat, discredit, drill, drill-hole, evil-friends, fake, fake-friends, false, false-friends, food-for-thought, friends, hole, hypocrites, impact, israelmore-ayivor, leak, legacies, legacy, negative-friends, people, pretenders
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: back-stabbing, backbiting, bad-friends, bad-people, behind, betrayal, confidant, deadly, dearest, disloyalty, distrust, double-dealing, fake-friends, falseness, fickleness, friend, friends, friendship, fuck-up, hurt, infidelity, suspicion, two-timing, unfaithfulness, unfriendliness, wolves
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    Carlos Wallace
    “Fear makes strangers of people who you thought were friends.”
    ― Carlos Wallace
    tags: carlos-wallace, fake-friends, fake-love, fake-people, fakery, fear, fear-quotes
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “We are some people’s friends only when they are with us.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: best-friend, best-friends, best-friends-forever, bff, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, true-friend, true-friends
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Telling a true friend that you need something makes it unnecessary for you to ask them for that thing.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: a-friend-in-need, ask-for-help, enemies, enemy, fake-friends, false-friend, friend, friends, help, true-friend
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    Juan de la Cruz
    “They can be like the sun, words.
    They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”
    ― St. John of the Cross, The Poems of St. John of the Cross
    tags: language, sun, words
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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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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
    4362 likes

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    “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”
    ― Hafez
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    Kabir
    “If you want the truth,
    I’ll tell you the truth:
    Listen to the secret sound,
    the real sound,
    which is inside you.”
    ― Kabir
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    Kabir
    “Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them,
    The right hand and the left hand are one and the same.
    Kabîr says: "There the wise man is speechless; for this truth may
    never be found in Vedas or in books.”
    ― Kabir, Songs of Kabir
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    Bruce Springsteen
    “the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...”
    ― Bruce Springsteen
    tags: jungleland, song-lyrics
    22 likes



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