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    Lao Tzu
    “Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: contemplation, proverb
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    Robert Collier
    “Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”
    ― Robert Collier
    tags: inspiration
    432 likes

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    Yoshida Kenkō
    “To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
    ― Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
    tags: books, contemplation, reading
    138 likes

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  • #4
    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend
    2017 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity
    1852 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
    1657 likes

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  • #7
    Nikola Tesla
    “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: insanity
    789 likes

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  • #8
    Jim Rohn
    “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
    ― Jim Rohn
    tags: education, self-improvement
    1006 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions
    2992 likes

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  • #10
    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
    2182 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “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
    1925 likes

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  • #12
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: introspection, journey, self-discovery, within
    1105 likes

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  • #13
    Confucius
    “The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects of Confucius
    43 likes

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  • #14
    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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    Stephen Richards
    “The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”
    ― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
    tags: law-of-attraction, mind-power, money, motivational, new-age, positive-thinking, self-help, stephen-richards, wealth, worthy
    413 likes

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    Anne Frank
    “How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne-frank, self-improvement
    296 likes

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    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
    1276 likes

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  • #18
    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth
    1322 likes

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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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    Epictetus
    “Only the educated are free.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: education
    359 likes

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  • #21
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
    3040 likes

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  • #22
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, hurt, preparedness, presidential
    706 likes

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  • #23
    Isaac Newton
    “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: diplomacy
    411 likes

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  • #24
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, preparedness, strategy
    261 likes

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  • #25
    Harry Truman
    “Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: diplomacy, tact
    83 likes

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  • #26
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: diplomacy, militarism
    74 likes

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  • #27
    Aesop
    “Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: despair, trust
    159 likes

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  • #28
    Aesop
    “Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
    ― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
    tags: fashion, remaining-silent
    152 likes

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  • #29
    Aesop
    “Adversity tests the sincerity of friends”
    ― aesop
    63 likes

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  • #30
    Aesop
    “It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
    ― Aesop
    58 likes



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