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    Vincent van Gogh
    “In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: harmony
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    Wendell Berry
    “Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
    ― Wendell Berry
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    “Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck”
    ― Eli Wallach
    tags: criticism, critics, on-acting
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    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
    ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
    tags: religion
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    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.”
    ― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
    tags: religion, wonder
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    “Winter always turns into Spring”
    ― Nichiren Daishonin
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    John Calvin
    “We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”
    ― John Calvin
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    Martin Luther
    “You have as much laughter as you have faith.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: faith, laughter
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”
    ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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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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    Nelson Mandela
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: forgiveness, inspirational
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Coco Chanel
    “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: failure, success, time
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    Arthur Miller
    “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
    ― Arthur Miller
    tags: betrayal, friendship, reality
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    C.G. Jung
    “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr
    tags: hope
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

    And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

    "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

    "Certainly," said man.

    "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

    And He went away.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: creation, meaning-of-life, purpose
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
    tags: atheism, belief, blind, blind-faith, blindness, christian-faith, christian-miracle, critical-thinking, critical-thought, death-of-reason, doubt, doubt-is-sin, eternity, existence, foundation-of-belief, human-nature, intoxication, meaning, meaning-of-life, metaphor, miracle, myth, nature, origin, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life, reason, reflection, religious-faith, resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus, sin, sinful, thinking, thoughts, wasted-life
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”
    ― Viktor Frankl
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Anthony de Mello
    “As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: awakening, ideology, meaning-of-life, spirituality
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms
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    Reinhold Niebuhr
    “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

    Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

    Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

    No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.”
    ― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: christ, religion, south
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: crudeness, grace, perspicacity, violence, writing
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    Socrates
    “Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest
    amount of money and honour and reputation,
    and caring so little about wisdom and
    truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? ”
    ― Socrates
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