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#1

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth

13227 likes

#2

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: empathy, honesty, self-awareness

1467 likes

#3

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”
― Victor Hugo

5 likes

#4

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

10575 likes

#5

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

3877 likes

#6

“the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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#7

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: experience, failure, science

718 likes

#8

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
― Bill Watterson

1637 likes

#9

“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

tags: psychology

25 likes

#10

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

4779 likes

#11

“With language, as with so much, context is all.”
― Cecily

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#12

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

2728 likes

#13

“People with umbrellas are the last to feel the rain.”
― Anonymous

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#14

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8138 likes

#15

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

tags: impossible

2681 likes

#16

“By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.”
― Edmund Burke

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#17

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

5303 likes

#18

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

tags: inspirational

2935 likes

#19

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

tags: atheism, philosophy

4657 likes

#20

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: attributed-no-source, incrementalism, inspirational, quote-by-sydney-smith

441 likes

#21

“A luxury, once enjoyed, becomes a necessity.”
― C Northcote Parkinson

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#22

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: loneliness, passion

2241 likes

#23

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational

3203 likes

#24

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

tags: character, discipline, freedom

173 likes

#25

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
― Voltaire

tags: doubt

845 likes

#26

“It's not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it's not possible to find it elsewhere.”
― Agnes Repplier

46 likes

#27

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
― James Joyce

487 likes

#28

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

tags: goals

837 likes

#29

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: growing-up, illusions, life

2078 likes

#30

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

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