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#1

“The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright, like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful of her purity, was laid out in fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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#2

“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them”
― Emily Brontë

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#3

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#4

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

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#5

“There's more beauty in the truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#6

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#7

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: live-in-the-moment, wonder

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#8

“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

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#9

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary

1355 likes

#10

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

5129 likes

#11

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

tags: philosophy, wayfinding

3470 likes

#12

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb

1164 likes

#13

“The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom-for-living

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#14

“The further one goes, the less one knows.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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#15

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars

5315 likes

#16

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

1230 likes

#17

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: love

1271 likes

#18

“Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

tags: music

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#19

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

1911 likes

#20

“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: home

765 likes

#21

“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”
― James Baldwin , Giovanni’s Room

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#22

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: wisdom

8869 likes

#23

“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

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