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#1

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: activism, service

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#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#3

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
― John Steinbeck

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#4

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: loneliness

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#5

“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: inspirational

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#6

“A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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#7

“If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while.”
― Jay Woodman

tags: amazing, experience, experience-inspiration, experience-quotes, game, life, life-philosophy, life-quotes, nest, play

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#8

“Resentment and bitterness build the cage that only punishes ourselves.”
― Jeffrey Fry

tags: bitterness, build, cage, only, ourselves, punishes, resentment

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#9

“If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: advice, being, build, building, career, castles, guru, health, inspirational, life, life-coach, life-coaching-advice, lifestyle, living, motivation, motivational, neglecting, nurture, protect, religion, spirituality, success, wealth

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#10

“May the fire in your soul, burn down all the fences and walls which this society is trying to build around you.”
― Akshay Vasu

tags: around, build, burn, down, fences, fire, motivation, society, soul, try, walls

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#11

“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#12

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: contemplation, dreaming, flowers, gardens, les-miserables, thinking, victor-hugo

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#13

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory

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#14

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

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#15

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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#16

“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: experience, memory, reflection, self

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#17

“This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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#18

“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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#19

“Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?”
― Albert Camus

tags: perseverance, sisyphus, success

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#20

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#21

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable

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#22

“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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#23

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: betrayal, loyalty, relationships

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#24

“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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#25

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

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#26

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

tags: atheism, god, religion

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#27

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
― Albert Camus

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#28

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: judgement

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#29

“acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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#30

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: mind, psychology

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