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    Confucius
    “And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: rockstar-physicist
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    Confucius
    “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: education
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    Confucius
    “The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
    ― Confucious
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    Confucius
    “Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen."

    Tzu Chang asked what they were.

    Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness.
    If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected;
    if you are generous, you will gain everything.
    If you are honest, people will rely on you.
    If you are persistent you will get results.
    If you are kind, you can employ people.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: hard, love
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    Confucius
    “The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”
    (Analects 4.9)”
    ― Confucius
    tags: capitalism, china, consumerism, greed, materialism, simplicity, virtue
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  • #10
    Confucius
    “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: force, power-of-words, words
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  • #11
    Confucius
    “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
    ― Confucius
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  • #12
    Confucius
    “roads were made for journeys not destinations”
    ― Confucius
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  • #13
    Confucius
    “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
    ― Confucius, Analects Of Confucius
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    Confucius
    “Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.”
    ― Confucius
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  • #15
    Confucius
    “The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct”
    ― Confucius
    tags: inspirational
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  • #16
    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Bruce Lee
    “Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
    tags: fear, motivational
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    Bruce Lee
    “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: bruce-lee
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  • #19
    Bruce Lee
    “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: be-yourself
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  • #20
    Bruce Lee
    “Not being tense but ready.
    Not thinking but not dreaming.
    Not being set but flexible.
    Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
    It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
    tags: zen
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  • #21
    “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
    ― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha
    tags: inspirational
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    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    ― Sharon Salzberg
    tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom
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  • #23
    Jack Kornfield
    “In the end
    these things matter most:
    How well did you love?
    How fully did you live?
    How deeply did you let go?”
    ― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
    tags: eastern-philosophy, inspirational
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  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #28
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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  • #30
    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
    9403 likes



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