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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    Milan Kundera
    “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, philosophy
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    Amit Ray
    “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
    ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
    tags: attention, compassion, happiness, happy-life, inspirational, kindness, life, love, meaning-of-life, meditation, money, oneness, peace, perspective, philosophy, positive-attitude, positive-living, purpose, purpose-in-life, purpose-of-life, purposeful-living, respect, revelation, self-awareness, self-discovery, spirit, spirituality, wisdom
    1106 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep
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    George Orwell
    “On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
    ― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
    tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy
    796 likes

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    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
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    Babe Ruth
    “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
    ― Babe Ruth
    tags: baseball, perseverance, philosophy, sports
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    Ayn Rand
    “Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
    761 likes

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  • #9
    “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
    ― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
    tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl
    558 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama
    tags: brain, ethics, inspirational, kindness, morality, philosophy, simple, temple
    757 likes

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    Agatha Christie
    “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Alan W. Watts
    “The menu is not the meal.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Epictetus
    “Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
    ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
    tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read
    896 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth
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    William James
    “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
    ― William James
    tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: expectations, life, people, philosophy
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    Ayn Rand
    “I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
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    Harper Lee
    “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: life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: excuse, improvement, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, respect
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    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, assumption, change, compassion, inspirational, judging, kindness, life, respect, success
    1875 likes

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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
    Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: character, class, common-sense, dignity, happiness, health, inner-peace, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, life, life-quotes, love, manners, money, morals, patience, respect, time, trust
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    Hermann Hesse
    “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
    tags: individuality, respect, uniqueness
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    Laurence Sterne
    “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
    ― Laurence Sterne
    tags: manners, morality, morals, respect
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important

    1. Use their name.
    2. Express sincere gratitude.
    3. Do more listening than talking.
    4. Talk more about them than about you.
    5. Be authentically interested.
    6. Be sincere in your praise.
    7. Show you care.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: care, gratitude, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, listening, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, respect, show-you-care
    710 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
    tags: loss, respect, self-respect
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
    tags: boundaries, feelings, life, people, relationships, respect, vanity
    396 likes



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