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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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  • #2
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: chinese-proverb, revenge
    489 likes

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  • #3
    Anne Lamott
    “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    tags: forgiveness, grudges, revenge, spite
    716 likes

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  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
    2256 likes

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  • #5
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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  • #6
    Joshua Caleb
    “Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.”
    ― Joshua Caleb
    tags: aftertaste, bitter, revenge, revenge-is-sweet, sweet
    72 likes

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  • #7
    Jonathan Maberry
    “Revenge is an infection of the spirit.”
    ― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin
    tags: revenge
    73 likes

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  • #8
    Erica O'Rourke
    “Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.”
    ― Erica O'Rourke, Torn
    tags: justice, pain, revenge
    58 likes

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  • #9
    “Funny thing about revenge. It could make a killer out of a nun.”
    ― Kevis Hendrickson
    tags: hunter-alaron, revenge, rogue-hunter-saga, zyra-zanr
    29 likes

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  • #10
    Brenna Yovanoff
    “My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.”
    ― Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
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  • #11
    Chris Bradford
    “Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.”
    ― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior
    tags: defeat, revenge
    43 likes

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  • #12
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Dream-Hunter
    tags: revenge
    24 likes

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  • #13
    Goldie Hawn
    “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
    ― Goldie Hawn
    tags: destiny, fate, life
    450 likes

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  • #14
    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
    78306 likes

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  • #15
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
    15761 likes

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  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: force, peace
    2472 likes

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  • #17
    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
    1300 likes

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  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: brotherly-love, enemies, fighting, love, peace, trial, victory
    1348 likes

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  • #19
    Gautama Buddha
    “Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama
    tags: accountability, inner-peace, peace, self-acceptance, spiritual
    1553 likes

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  • #20
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: peace
    390 likes

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  • #21
    Mitch Albom
    “You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: peace, self-acceptance
    941 likes

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  • #22
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: peace
    858 likes

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  • #23
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power
    1703 likes

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  • #24
    Eckhart Tolle
    “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: peace
    626 likes

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  • #25
    Walt Whitman
    “Peace is always beautiful.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: peace, poetry
    886 likes

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  • #26
    Marvin Gaye
    “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
    ― Marvin Gaye
    tags: inspiring, life, peace, self, world
    289 likes

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  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69679 likes

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  • #28
    Patrick Ness
    “It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
    It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
    It's not a weakness.
    It's your best strength.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
    tags: control, love, strength, weakness
    1303 likes

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  • #29
    Patrick Ness
    “Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking."
    I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening.
    "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
    685 likes

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  • #30
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
    5921 likes



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