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    Jane Austen
    “Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor...which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony...
    Quote from a Jane Austen Letter 13 March, 1817”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Kōbō Abe
    “Being free always involves being lonely.”
    ― Kōbō Abe
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    Anthon St. Maarten
    “If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.”
    ― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
    tags: appreciation, blessing, blessings, blessings-in-disguise, curse, dark-night-of-the-soul, desperation, dualism, duality, gratitude, happiness, joy, life-journey, life-lessons, light-and-darkness, pearls, sadness, tears, wisdom, yin-and-yang
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    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: darkness, darkness-and-light, darkness-quotes, ildan-wisdom, ildan-wise-sayings, ildan-words, light, light-and-darkness, light-quotes, lights, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, precious, precious-things, precious-things-in-life, turkish-authors, turkish-literature, turkish-playwrights, turkish-quotations, turkish-quotes, turkish-wisdom-words, turkish-writers
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  • #5
    “We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: acceptance, ask-questions, awaken, awakened, awakened-heart, awakened-soul, awakening, awakening-mind, aware, awareness, conscience, conscious, consciousness, dark, darkness, development, enlighten, experiences, illumination, individual, individualism, individuality, inquiring, knowledge, knowledge-power, lessons, lies, life, light, light-and-darkness, light-quotations, light-quotes, media, morality, philosophy, pop-culture, popular, popular-opinion, popularity, power, question-everything, questions, right-and-wrong, right-questions, seek-truth, seeker, seeking-answers, seeking-truth, sheep, sleeping, spiritual, spiritual-growth, spirituality, thinking, transcedental, transcendence, waking-up, wisdom, wrong
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    John Green
    “The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: grief, loss, memory
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    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
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  • #8
    Thomm Quackenbush
    “If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!”
    ― Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre
    tags: chess, consent, explanation, game, part, pawn, play, use, used
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  • #9
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: confidence, relationships, women
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    Kate McGahan
    “I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home.”
    ― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
    tags: afterlife, death, end-of-life, end-of-life-issues, god, heaven, hospice, life, pain, passage, suffer, suffering, transition
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    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    “It is easy to tell the toiler
    How best he can carry his pack
    But no one can rate a burden's weight
    Until it has been on his back”
    ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    tags: advice, burden, pride, suffering, sympathy
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: abandonment, cancer, death, friendship, grief, loss, mourning, sadness
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    Pete Walker
    “Perfectionism is the unparalleled defense for emotionally abandoned children. The existential unattainability of perfection saves the child from giving up, unless or until, scant success forces him to retreat into the depression of a dissociative disorder, or launches him hyperactively into an incipient conduct disorder. Perfectionism also provides a sense of meaning and direction for the powerless and unsupported child. In the guise of self-control, striving to be perfect offers a simulacrum of a sense of control. Self-control is also safer to pursue because abandoning parents typically reserve their severest punishment for children who are vocal about their negligence.”
    ― Pete Walker
    tags: abandonment, abusive-parents, child-abuse, child-neglect, conduct-disorder, defense-mechanism, dissociation, dissociative-disorder, dissociative-identity-disorder, emotional-abuse, emotionally-unavailable, mental-health, mental-illness, perfectionism, powerlessness, psychological-abuse, punishment, self-control, survivors, survivors-of-abuse
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
    ― Shannon l. Alder
    tags: acceptance, adversity, best-friend, breakups, caring, child, cruelty, dad, dumped, endings, family, friendship, hurt, illness, love, mental-disorders, misunderstood-fights, mom, pain, rejection, sorrow, spouse, support, support-system, tough-times, trials, true-friendship
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    Lynn Dove
    “'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her...”
    ― Lynn Dove, Shoot the Wounded
    tags: christianity, gossip, hypocrisy, rejection, religion, shooting-the-wounded, suffering
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    Audre Lorde
    “Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human difference between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: capitalism, difference, differences-between-people, institutionalized, outsiders, profit, rejection
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  • #21
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #24
    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    tags: flattery, praise, words
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  • #25
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: all, better-go, just, leaving, words
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    William Shakespeare
    “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, sadness, sorrow, words
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  • #27
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: intelligence
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  • #28
    Andrew Jackson
    “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
    ― Andrew Jackson
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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assumptions, bias, brainwashed, coheresed, critics, guessing, judging, life-experience, life-experiences, limited-knowledge, limited-perspective, not-enough-information, not-knowing, opinions, pressured, upbringing, view
    135 likes



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