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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #9
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78307 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: achievement, fail, failure, repetition, success
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry
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  • #17
    Erin Hunter
    “Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”
    ― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
    tags: erin, hunter, hurt, pain, stoicism, suffer, tigerclaw, tigerstar, warrior, warriors
    643 likes

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    Randy Pausch
    “Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
    tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen
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    Seneca
    “Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism
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    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: stoicism
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    Seneca
    “Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
    ― Taleb Nassim Nicholas
    tags: stoicism
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  • #24
    Seneca
    “Maximum remedium est irae mora.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: anger, stoicism
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  • #25
    Gary Snyder
    “True affluence is not needing anything.”
    ― Gary Snyder
    tags: contentment, stoicism
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  • #26
    Seneca
    “If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: stoicism
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  • #27
    Robin Sharma
    “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
    ― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
    tags: mindfulness, nature-of-reality, perception, spiritual-growth, truth
    453 likes

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  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #29
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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  • #30
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: happiness, inspirational
    11095 likes



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