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#1

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#2

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

tags: art, individual, poetry, tradition

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#3

“I always encourage them to practice in a way that will help them go back to their own tradition and get re-rooted. If they succeed at at becoming reintegrated, they will be an important instrument in transforming and renewing their tradition.
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When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. ... Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

tags: culture, spiritual, tradition, traditional

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#4

“It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Vol 3: A Miscellany

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#5

“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.”
― Stormie Omartian, Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing

tags: god, identity, value, worth

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#6

“It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.”
― Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman

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#7

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

tags: choices, life

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#8

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
― Fred Rogers

tags: friends, friendship, love, peace

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#9

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement

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#10

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#11

“I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: cry, darkness, rough, syllables, touch, verb, words

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#12

“Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.”
― Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

tags: entropy

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#13

“The Prodigal Son

They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red,
They whispered their desire and offered up their bed,
Yet he prayed for the spirit in the wind and God’s mysteries to find,
And in the end it was her transparent heart that stole his restless mind,
It really was no contest, not a question or even a doubt,
But that is not where love ends or even what true love is all about,
You see there was one other that rose above the rest,
She was not like these women but still she was God’s very best,
So the moral goes: A child answered the call to this man's wandering heart,
And that is how the story ends you see... she became his favorite part,
And what happened to the virtuous woman who put his mind in hell,
She became the whisper in his music and a mystery to tell.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: children, daughters, dervishes, duty, endings, fables, fairytales, heart, loveee, mind, morals, novels, parables, poems, poetry, prodigal-son, prose, reasons, responsibility, rumi, stories, story, true-love, truth-you-can-live-with

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#14

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland

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#15

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

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#16

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: adventure

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#17

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: appreciation, attitude, wonder

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#18

“This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector.”
― Plato

tags: tyrant, tyrany

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#19

“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”
― Aristotle

tags: poverty, tyrant

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#20

“We can't just drop everything, sir!"
"Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

tags: moist-von-lipwig, tyrant, vetinari

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#21

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.”
― William J Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

tags: fear, republic, rule, tyranny, tyrant, virtue, virtues

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#22

“You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context!”
― Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

tags: atheism, bloodthirsty, context, lies, obfuscation, tyrant

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#23

“To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.”
― Laura Kreitzer, Abyss

tags: abyss, battle, fantasy, fiction, kreitzer, leadership, timeless-series, tyrant

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#24

“Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: tyrant

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#25

“To be honest, we have learned by our many experiences with gods both heathen and non-heathen, that if personified, they bear only problems. There’s a single step for an angel to become a demon.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

tags: angel, angels-and-demons, demon, god, gods-power, tyrant

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#26

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
― Fredrick Douglas

tags: endurance, freedom, oppose, opposition, tyrant, tyrants

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#27

“إننا نرفض المستبد العادل، لأن أي مستبد في الدنيا لا يمكن أن يكون عادلاً، فالإستبداد هو أحد معاني الظلم والطغيان الجبروت”
― مصطفى أمين, أفكار ممنوعة

tags: injustice, tyranny, tyrant

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#28

“But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: dominance, ego, fear, humility, insecurity, irony, peace, pride, tyrant, world-peace

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#29

“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself. The giant of self-achieved independence is the world’s messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

tags: acquisition, acquisitiveness, aggression, greed, tyranny, tyrant

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#30

“The way to a tyrant's heart is through a doctorate”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Monrovia Mon Amour: Travels in Liberia

tags: humor, travel, tyrant

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