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#1

“This is what I mean by quitting surfing. When you surf, as I then understood it, you live and breathe waves. You always know what the surf is doing. You cut school, lose jobs, lose girlfriends, if it’s good.”
― William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

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#2

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

tags: confidence

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#3

“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”
― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

tags: the-hero-as-a-man-of-letters

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#4

“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”
― Jed McKenna

tags: dreams, enlightenment, happiness, suffering

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#5

“We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.”
― Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

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#6

“It is your show.

It is your universe.
There is no one else here, just you,
and nothing is being withheld from you.
You are completely on your own.
Everything is available for direct knowing.
No one else has anything you need.
No one else can lead you, pull you, push you or carry you.”
― Jed McKenna

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#7

“Self-slaughter is an extravagant enactment of feeling sorry for oneself. Suicide is stingy act, because no matter how wretched our life may currently be, a person can always rise tomorrow and perform some small act of kindness for other people, care for a pet, or perform some other caring act that works towards preserving nature’s graciousness. To die of their own hand is to cheat other people and shortchange Mother Nature; it is taking without giving back in kind. What combats suicide is a sense of gratitude, a willingness to give to other people, and to cease living life as a taker. Without a profound appreciation for all that is living and devoid of a sincere willingness to contribute to the flourishing of all life forms, one can callously write off the value of their own life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: appreciating-life, grateful-soul, self-destruction, self-destructive-impulses, suicidal-thoughts, suicide

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#8

“You have no right to kill others. Then how can you have a right to kill yourself?”
― Preeti Shenoy, Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny

tags: suicidal-thoughts

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#9

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

tags: family

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#10

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
― Heraclitus

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#11

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
― Confucius

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#12

“One is free from depression,” writes Alice Miller in The Drama of the Gifted Child, “when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of one’s own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

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#13

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#14

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
― Gospel of Thomas

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#15

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.”
― Gospel of Thomas

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#16

“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”
― Victor Hugo

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#17

“Fear is the passion of slaves.”
― Patrick Henry

tags: fear, passion, slaves

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#18

“We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, believe, confine, confines, consumerism, content, exaggerate, exaggeration, free, freedom, funny, glorify, glory, happiness, happy, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, idol, idolatry, idols, inflate, inflated, jail, jailed, jailer, jailers, jails, joke, jokes, joy, joyous, liberate, liberation, material, materialism, money, prison, prison-cell, prison-cells, prisoner, prisoners, prisons, rich, riches, satire, shack, shacks, slave, slavery, slaves, spiritual, spirituality, wealth, wealthy, worship

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#19

“If you find God, you shall be free forever.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: bondage, christian, free, freedom, god, inspirational, liberty, self-help, slaves, you

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#20

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

tags: future, history, robot, slaves, society

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#21

“Fear of the unknown makes us slaves of the old.”
― Nityananda Das, Divine Union

tags: fear, slaves, unknown

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#22

“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.”
― Patrick Meagher

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#23

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

tags: life, self-actualization, unrealized-potential

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#24

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility

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#25

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, cowardice

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#26

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assertive, assertiveness, bravery, choices, confidence, courage, coward, daughter-of-god, dignity, disrespect, enemies, fearful, integrity, low-self-esteem, retreat, scores, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, silence, women

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#27

“Hating is the coward’s way of refusing to be vulnerable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: coward, cowardice, escape, hating, hatred, vengeful, vulnerability, vulnerable

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#28

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”
― Neville Goddard, Your Faith is Your Fortune

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#29

“If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.”
― Neville Goddard

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#30

“Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself. The reflection then will be satisfactory.”
― Neville Goddard, Your Faith is Your Fortune

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