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    محمد بن إدريس الشافعي
    “كلما أدّبني الدهر أراني نقص عقلي و كلما ازددت علما زادني علما بجهلي”
    ― الإمام الشافعي
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    Madeline Miller
    “We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles
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    John Milton
    “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: darkness, light, struggle
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
    ― Rumi
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    Madeline Miller
    “You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: destiny, nature-vs-nurture
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: chaos-of-life, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, smile, smiles
    326 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: be-yourself, love, self-actualization
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  • #9
    Jasmine Warga
    “I will be stronger than my sadness.”
    ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
    tags: depression, fight, life, mental-illness, sadness, struggle
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  • #10
    Henrik Ibsen
    “You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
    ― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
    tags: confidence, opposition, resistance, struggle
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  • #11
    Dinos Christianopoulos
    “They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.”
    ― Dinos Christianopoulos
    tags: activism, power, powerful, struggle, survival
    246 likes

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  • #12
    “I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
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  • #13
    عنترة بن شداد
    “وَلَقَد ذَكَرتُكِ والرِّماحُ نَواهِلٌ - مِنّي وبِيضُ الهِندِ تَقطُرُ مِن دَمي
    فَوَدَدتُ تَقبيلَ السُيوفِ لأَنَّها - لَمَعَت كَبارِقِ ثَغرِكِ المُتَبَسِّمِ”
    ― عَنتَرة بِن شَدّاد
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  • #14
    Sophia Loren
    “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
    ― Sophia Loren
    tags: aesthetics, beauty, cosmetics
    372 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “Rules of taste enforce structures of power.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
    ― Baruch de Spinoza, Spinoza in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte
    tags: aesthetics, genius
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  • #17
    Clarice Lispector
    “In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
    tags: aesthetics, art, beauty, good, truth
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    Richard O. Prum
    “Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”
    ― Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
    tags: aesthetics, beauty, darwinism, evolution, feedback-loop, mate-choice, natural-selection, ronald-a-fisher, sexual-selection
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    Kazimir Malevich
    “Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”
    ― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
    tags: aestheticism, aesthetics, intuition
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    Edith Hamilton
    “Fairest of the deathless gods.

    This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”
    ― Edith Hamilton, Mythology
    tags: aesthetics, ancient-greece, history, mythology
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    Jonathan Anthony Burkett
    “Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.”
    ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
    tags: 2013, child-abuse, determined, faith, hard-times, hate, life-quotes, love, money, music, neglect, struggle
    164 likes

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  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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  • #24
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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  • #25
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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  • #29
    Roy T. Bennett
    “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: choices, choose, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
    6068 likes

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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, happiness, happy, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, mind, mindset, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #31
    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
    165219 likes



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