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  • #1
    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Greg Behrendt
    “I’m about to make a wild, extreme, and severe relationship rule: THE WORD "BUSY" IS A LOAD OF CRAP AND IS MOST OFTEN USED BY ASSHOLES. The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.”
    ― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
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    Greg Behrendt
    “When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.”
    ― Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
    tags: love, men, relationship
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    Greg Behrendt
    “I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.”
    ― Greg Behrendt
    tags: behrendt, call, dating, faith, greg, he-s-not-just-into-you, love, marriage, romance, true, true-love, truth
    2284 likes

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  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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  • #7
    “Remember, if you're heading in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!”
    ― Allison Gappa Bottke
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  • #8
    Alain
    “Penser, c'est aller d'erreur en erreur.”
    ― Émile-Auguste Chartier
    tags: mistakes, thinking
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  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
    9445 likes

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  • #10
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
    1285 likes

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  • #11
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
    ― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
    tags: endings, knowing, life, novel, people, worth
    696 likes

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  • #12
    William James
    “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
    ― William James
    tags: wisdom
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  • #13
    William James
    “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
    ― William James
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  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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  • #15
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
    5906 likes

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  • #16
    Epicurus
    “He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”
    ― Epicurus
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  • #17
    Markus Zusak
    “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: pain, sadness, stoicism
    4158 likes

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  • #18
    Salman Rushdie
    “How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
    tags: civil-society, courage, freedom, serenity, stoicism, terrorism
    246 likes

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  • #19
    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music
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  • #20
    Lao Tzu
    “Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: patience, taoism, understand
    280 likes

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  • #21
    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”
    ― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga
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  • #23
    Alan W. Watts
    “The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg goes after which?” This worked his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to run.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen
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  • #24
    Alan W. Watts
    “I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.”
    ― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
    tags: self-consciousness
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  • #25
    “For instance, there is no light without darkness—and this troubles many of us—but without it, how else would we tell one from the other? We spend half of every day in darkness; surely we should make our peace with this.”
    ― Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
    tags: twin-peaks
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  • #26
    David Lynch
    “Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.”
    ― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
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  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, religion
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  • #28
    D.T. Suzuki
    “We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.”
    ― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
    tags: way
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  • #29
    Konrad Lorenz
    “I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.”
    ― Konrad Lorenz
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  • #30
    Confucius
    “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: ancient, ancient-china, ancient-chinese, body, chinese, conquers, fighting, inspirational, philosophical, philosophy, proverb, self-improvement, self-realization, training, warrior
    233 likes

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  • #31
    “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
    ― Chinese Proverb
    tags: deborah-serravalle, how-we-danced
    20 likes



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