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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: change, focus, grow, growth, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, stay-focused, step-out-of-comfort-zone, transform
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    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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    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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    Denis Diderot
    “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
    ― Denis Diderot
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    Denis Diderot
    “Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others”
    ― Denis Diderot
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    Denis Diderot
    “Scepticism is the first step towards truth.”
    ― Denis Diderot, Pensées philosophiques
    tags: scepticism, skepticism, truth
    88 likes

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    Denis Diderot
    “A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
    ― Denis Diderot
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    Denis Diderot
    “For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.”
    ― Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau
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    Denis Diderot
    “If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.”
    ― Denis Diderot
    tags: belief, empiricism, evidence, proof, senses, touch
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    Denis Diderot
    “Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
    ― Denis Diderot
    tags: life-and-living, passion
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    André Gide
    “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
    6203 likes

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    John Stuart Mill
    “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
    ― John Stuart Mill
    tags: contentment, frugality
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
    tags: love
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: curiosity, greed, insight, understanding
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
    ― Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: gods, humor, madness, superstition
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: belief, firm, ignorance, intensity, knowledge
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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  • #30
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)”
    ― Montaigne
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