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    André Gide
    “In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.”
    ― André Gide
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Love follows knowledge.”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
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    Seneca
    “Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
    ― Seneca, Moral Essays, Volume I: De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
    tags: wealth
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    Charles R. Swindoll
    “We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.”
    ― Charles R. Swindoll
    tags: attitude, change
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    Charles R. Swindoll
    “The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.”
    ― Charles R. Swindoll
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: change, education
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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    Barack Obama
    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: change, inspirational
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: change, courage, fear, life
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: determined, inspirational, misattributed-bruce-lee, spiritual
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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
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    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    ― Albert Camus, The First Man
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    Albert Camus
    “People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: judgement
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    Albert Camus
    “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion
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    Albert Camus
    “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: breathe, connection, look-up-and-enjoy-life, perspective, relationship, relax
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    Albert Camus
    “Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
    tags: being, innocence, nostalgia, rebellion, revolt
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    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    ― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
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    Albert Camus
    “Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: absurdism
    712 likes



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