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    Alaric Hutchinson
    “Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.”
    ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
    tags: buddhism, choice-and-attitude, choices, consciousness, enlightenment, experience, giving, growth, happiness, hope, inner-peace, inspirational, joy, joyful-living, living-your-best-life, love, love-of-life, new-age, new-thought, peace-of-mind, perspective, power-of-now, present-moment, psychology, reality, realization, simplicity, simplicity-in-life, spiritual, suffering, togetherness, wisdom, words-to-live-by, zen
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    John Gardner
    “Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
    ― John Gardner
    tags: reality, self-pity
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Ryan Holiday
    “We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won’t be impressed. We can’t let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: ‘peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.’ With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It’s on us.”
    ― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
    tags: control, ego, egoism, motivation, peace-of-mind, pride, self-respect
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    Donna Goddard
    “We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”
    ― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
    tags: awake, awake-my-soul, awakened-mind, awakening, awareness, care, careful-with-words, communication, communication-quotes, consciousness, consciousness-raising, conversation, conversation-quotes, conversations, mind, spiritual-quotes, spiritual-wisdom, spirituality, thought, thoughts, wisdom, wisdom-quotes, words-of-wisdom
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    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    ― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages
    tags: family, friendship, humor
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    Jim Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: family
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: family, readers, reading
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    Criss Jami
    “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: character, forgiveness, grudge, grudges, holding-grudges, move-on, moving-on, owe, owed, peace, peace-of-mind, revenge, strength, strength-of-character, substance, substantial, unforgiving, vengeance
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  • #10
    “Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: humanity, knowledge, peace, peace-of-mind, reveal, selling, truth, truths, wisdom
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  • #11
    “APPLY WITHIN

    You once told me
    You wanted to find
    Yourself in the world -
    And I told you to
    First apply within,
    To discover the world
    within you.

    You once told me
    You wanted to save
    The world from all its wars -
    And I told you to
    First save yourself
    From the world,
    And all the wars
    You put yourself
    Through.


    APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem”
    ― Suzy Kassem
    tags: attitude
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    Pablo
    “Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.”
    ― Pablo
    tags: common-sense, energy, happiness, happy, inspiration, life, love, optimism, peace-of-mind, people, progress
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    Kamal Ravikant
    “Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.”
    ― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
    tags: honesty, peace, peace-of-mind
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    Esther Hicks
    “If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.”
    ― Esther Hicks
    tags: abraham, abraham-hicks, allow, control-freaks, control-issues, controlling, esther-hicks, law-of-attraction, peace-of-mind, reality, reality-check, self-determination
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  • #15
    “We don't have to meet people where they are, we just have to love them where they are to find any sort of peace. This is something I learned from being my mother's child.”
    ― Jodi Livon
    tags: appreciation, death, grief, jodi-livon, love, peace-of-mind, quotes, the-happy-medium
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    Gillian Johns
    “Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars.”
    ― Gillian Duce, Blight in the Ocean
    tags: awesome-quotes, love, love-quotes, mindfulness, oneness, peace-of-mind, unity
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    Ahmed Mostafa
    “Hold this rope while I dive into my soul; don't even bother pulling it if I didn't come up on my own.”
    ― Ahmed Mostafa
    tags: alone, diving, lone-wolf, loving-yourself, peace-of-mind, peace-within, peace-within-yourself, rope, self-discovery, self-discovery-quotes, soul-searching
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    Dragos Bratasanu
    “Changing the external conditions of your lives - earn more money, be in a better physical shape, have another partner or travel more - will not change how you feel. It never works because the emptiness is not around, is within. The only way to come back to life is to acknowledge that little voice rising from your heart and begging you to return to love, to return to truth.”
    ― Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
    tags: follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, fulfilment, life, live-your-life, material-things, peace-of-mind, spirituality, truth, wisdom
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    Joyce Rachelle
    “Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.”
    ― Joyce Rachelle
    tags: alone, deep-in-thought, finding-inspiration, happy-place, inspiration, peace, peace-of-mind, quiet-place, silence, solitude, thinking, thinking-man, thinking-mind, undisturbed
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  • #20
    “The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth.”
    ― Geoffrey Knight
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    Shah Asad Rizvi
    “Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”
    ― Shah Asad Rizvi
    tags: artist, artists, artists-quotes, author, bachata, baila, bailando, ballerina, ballet, ballet-dancer, ballroom, ballroom-dance, ballroom-dancing, belly-dance, belly-dancer, belly-dancing, bhangra, boogie-woogie, choreographer, choreography, contemporary-dance, dance, dance-academy, dance-class, dance-costume, dance-festival, dance-floor, dance-life, dance-photography, dance-quote, dance-quotes, dance-shoes, dance-show, dance-studio, dance-wear, dancehall-dance, dancer, dancing, dancing-with-the-stars, danza, disco-dance, disco-dancing, electronic-dance, figure-skater, figure-skating, flamenco, folk-dance, freestyle, gymnastics, ice-skating, inspirational-quotes, jazz-dance, kathak, kizomba, latin-dance, life-quotes, mambo, modern-dance, motion, motivational-quotes, movement, movements, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetry, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, raqs-sharqi, reggae-dance, reggaeton, rumi, salsa, salsa-dance, samba, shah-asad-rizvi, street-dance, sway, swing-dance, tango, tap-dance, word-porn, words-of-wisdom, writer, writing, zouk, zumba-dance
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    Germany Kent
    “If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”
    ― Germany Kent
    tags: control, control-your-self, control-your-tongue, controlling-anger, controlling-your-emotions, focus, focus-on-positive, focus-on-success, focus-on-the-prize-ahead, future-prediction, healthy-habits, keep-calm, keep-it-real, life-and-living, life-lesson, life-lesson-quote, life-lessons, life-quotes, self-awareness, self-control, self-improvement, self-realization, truth, truth-of-life, truth-quotes, what-you-tweet, wisdom-quotes, wise-sayings, wise-speech, words, words-have-power, words-of-wisdom, words-to-live-by, you-are-what-you-speak, you-are-what-you-tweet
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    Jyoti Patel
    “The dark sky,
    Thunder, and
    Your presence.”
    ― Jyoti Patel, The Mystic Soul
    tags: dreams, feelings-and-emotions, happiness, love, memories, presence, she, sky, thunder, words-of-wisdom
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Brené Brown
    “When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”
    ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
    tags: accountability, boundaries, life, relationships
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    Stephen Fry
    “Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '.

    Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice.

    I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: americans, depression, depression-humor, happiness, marriage-advice, morality, narcissism, oscar-wilde, pride, relationships, self-help, self-improvement, self-pity, sin, sins, the-key-to-happiness, vice
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: forgetting, hate, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, living, strength
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