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#1

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

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#2

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

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#3

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, sadness

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#4

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#5

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#6

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran

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#7

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: beauty, music, sadness

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#8

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: family

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#9

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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#10

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
― John Milton

tags: hinesty, integrity, patience, suffering, wisdom

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#11

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton , Areopagitica

tags: argument, conscience, freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty

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#12

“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”
― John Milton, Comus

tags: freedom, freedom-of-thought

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#13

“What is dark within me, illumine.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#14

“How can I live without thee, how forego
Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild woods forlorn?
Should God create another Eve, and I
Another rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart; no, no, I feel
The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

However, I with thee have fixed my lot,
Certain to undergo like doom; if death
Consort with thee, death is to me as life;
So forcible within my heart I feel
The bond of nature draw me to my own,
My own in thee, for what thou art is mine;
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: love, poetry

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#15

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#16

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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#17

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conscience, humor, memory

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#18

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong

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#19

“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
― Joyce Meyer

tags: character, conscience, duty

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#20

“I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: conscience, elegance, honour, morality, wit

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#21

“No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

tags: beware-of-pity, conscience, guilt, stefan-zweig

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#22

“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: conscience, cruelty, love, loved, sexes, unrequited, woman

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#23

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
― John Calvin

tags: conscience, soul, torture

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#24

“Atticus, you must be wrong."

"How's that?"

"Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . ."

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: conscience, integrity

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#25

“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.”
― Roy T. Bennett

tags: conscience, doing-the-right-thing, morality, morals, philosophical, right, right-and-wrong, right-thing, tough-wisdom, wisdom

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#26

“It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.”
― Martin Luther

tags: conscience

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#27

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, The. Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

tags: conscience, ethics, majority

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#29

“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: conscience

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#30

“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: compassion, conscience, humanity, images, photography, suffering

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#31

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: accusations, bitter, blind-to-truth, character, character-assassination, civil-rights, conscience, creator, criticism, deceased-people, destroy, entertainment, evidence, falsely-accused, falsely-destroyed, god, gossip, gossip-quotes, gossiping, guilt-by-trial, guilty, guilty-conscience, history, hung-jury, ignorance, inestigators, innocence, innocent, integrity, investigate, judging, judging-actions, judging-others, judicial-system, jury-hearing, justice, knowledge, lamp, lamps, law, law-and-order, lie, light, lying, media, media-distortion, misjudge, misjudged, misjudgment, opinion, opinions-of-others, politics, popular-opinion, press, proof, recognize-truth, repuation-mangement, reputation, rumors, rumours, seek, seek-truth, society, tangerines, telling-the-truth, thinking, trial, trust-your-heart, truth, truth-and-justice, truth-telling, witness, woman, women

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