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#1

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspiration

#2

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― John Wooden

tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image

1416 likes

#3

“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: change, growth, inspirational, learning-from-mistakes, past

1553 likes

#4

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
― William James

tags: inspirational

576 likes

#5

“Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?”
― Violet Weingarten

tags: inspirational

75 likes

#6

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational

15320 likes

#7

“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a”
― Martha Washington

209 likes

#8

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
― Herbert Agar

tags: liberty, truth

29 likes

#9

“If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?”
― Gene Wilder

tags: truth

94 likes

#10

“There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.”
― Daniel Webster

tags: truth

37 likes

#11

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

tags: truth

687 likes

#12

“We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

tags: belief, truth

106 likes

#13

“Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.”
― Matthew Good, At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say

15 likes

#14

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

4007 likes

#15

“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”
― Patrick White, Voss

tags: imagination, truth

26 likes

#16

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
― Henry David Thoreau

282 likes

#17

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”
― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls

tags: power-of-words, salem-falls, truth, words

350 likes

#18

“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

tags: answer, truth, view

178 likes

#19

“The truth of the story lies in the details.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

tags: details, story, tension, truth

135 likes

#20

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth

4118 likes

#21