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    Seneca
    “Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!”
    ― Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
    tags: inspirational
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry
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  • #3
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
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  • #4
    Ambrose Bierce
    “NOVEL, n. A short story padded”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.”
    ― Emil Cioran
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  • #6
    “I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”
    ― Ken Venturi
    tags: believe, better, ever
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    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: attitude, gratitude, happiness, inspirational-quotes, satisfaction
    2218 likes

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  • #8
    Blaise Pascal
    “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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  • #9
    Seneca
    “No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.”
    ― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
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    Aristotle
    “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dignity
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
    ― Emil Cioran
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  • #12
    Albert Szent-Györgyi
    “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
    ― Albert Szent-Györgyi
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
    tags: challenges, change, courage, life
    3140 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: history, humility, philosophy
    1799 likes

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    Heraclitus
    “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: character, development-of-character, good-character, patience, patience-and-love
    42 likes

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  • #17
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: kindness
    1165 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The years teach much the days never know.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: time
    224 likes

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  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “Our doubts are traitors,
    and make us lose the good we oft might win,
    by fearing to attempt.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    tags: cowardice, doubt, resolve, self-doubt
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    Ron Chernow
    “The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the former. There’s far less competition. (Dwight Morrow)”
    ― Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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  • #21
    G.K. Chesterton
    “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: philosophy
    379 likes

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  • #22
    Seneca
    “The sun also shines on the wicked.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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  • #23
    Seneca
    “Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
    196 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
    10918 likes

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  • #26
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
    2921 likes

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  • #27
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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  • #28
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
    3835 likes

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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: painting, self-doubt
    1536 likes

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  • #30
    “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle”
    ― Improve Life Books, Inspirational Quotes : Pushing You Beyond Limits
    3 likes



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