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    William Wordsworth
    “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
    But to be young was very heaven.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Prelude
    tags: love
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    William Wordsworth
    “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: poetry
    456 likes

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    William Wordsworth
    “Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: reflection, thoughts, wisdom
    99 likes

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  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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  • #5
    Michel de Montaigne
    “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: individuality, reflection
    447 likes

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  • #6
    Simon Morden
    “People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it comes down to it, we don't need anyone else. We're happy doing what we do and having obligation interferes with that. And sometimes I think we don't even need ourselves. What's most important is to find out whether we're right or not.”
    ― Simon Morden, Equations of Life
    tags: life-philosophy, obligation, reflection, righteousness, self-discovery, self-esteem, selfishness, way-of-thinking
    47 likes

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  • #7
    Alberto Manguel
    “If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”
    ― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
    tags: books, library, readers, reflection
    64 likes

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  • #8
    Anaïs Nin
    “We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love
    tags: actions, acts, judgement, life, reflection, self, severe, thoughts, truth
    35 likes

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  • #9
    Parker J. Palmer
    “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one’s self.

    A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”
    ― Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life : Welcoming the soul and weaving community in a wounded world
    tags: inspirational, reflection, solitude-as-a-choice
    16 likes

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  • #10
    James Rozoff
    “There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.”
    ― James Rozoff
    tags: quietude, reflection
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  • #11
    Junot Díaz
    “if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.”
    ― Junot Díaz
    tags: culture, reflection, representation
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  • #12
    Mark Miodownik
    “In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires.”
    ― Mark Miodownik, Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
    tags: reflection, science
    14 likes

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  • #13
    Alain de Botton
    “Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...”
    ― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
    tags: reflection, travel
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  • #14
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: add, dimension, fable, job, mehmet-murat-ildan, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, reality, reflection
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  • #15
    Confucius
    “Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
    ― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius
    tags: education, learning, pedagogy, reflection, thinking, thought
    204 likes

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  • #16
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
    6111 likes

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  • #17
    Confucius
    “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
    ― Confucius, The Book of Rites
    tags: art, music, power-of-music
    691 likes

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  • #18
    Confucius
    “Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.”
    ― Confucius
    352 likes

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  • #19
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
    6083 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
    9423 likes

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  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
    4406 likes

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  • #22
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: love
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  • #23
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: identity
    3237 likes

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  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: unique
    2939 likes

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  • #25
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: own, things
    2723 likes

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  • #26
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: today
    2363 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: love
    2154 likes

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  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
    1928 likes

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  • #29
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: fight-club, inspirational, tyler, tyler-durden
    1964 likes

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  • #30
    Ayn Rand
    “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: independence
    2563 likes



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