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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
    tags: buddha, buddism, darma, monk, peace, plum-village, sangha, vietnam
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    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “You make problem, you have problem”
    ― Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Meditation
    tags: buddism
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: buddism, kindness, religion
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    Max Lucado
    “The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas.
    The latter will get you to heaven.
    Take your pick.”
    ― Max Lucado, Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love
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  • #5
    “Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.”
    ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
    tags: doubt, fear, friendship, holy-spirit, humanity, mind, peace, spirituality, thinking, worry
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    Julia Cameron
    “You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)”
    ― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: morning
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    Steve Maraboli
    “I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: aspirations, devil, goodness, inspirational, life, live, morning, motivational, purpose
    882 likes

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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
    tags: art, god, inspirational, nature
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Purity or impurity depends on oneself,
    No one can purify another.”
    ― Tipitaka. Suttapitaka. Khuddakanikaya. Dhammapada. English & Pali
    tags: buddha, buddhism, tipitaka
    328 likes

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    Gautama Buddha
    “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, saying, walk
    2067 likes

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    Daisaku Ikeda
    “Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.”
    ― Daisaku Ikeda
    tags: buddhism, humanism
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  • #13
    “Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.”
    ― Anonymous, The Dhammapada
    tags: buddhism, dhammapada, theravada
    71 likes

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    Kentetsu Takamori
    “Greed kills us all.”
    ― Kentetsu Takamori, Something You Forgot...Along the Way: Stories of Wisdom and Learning
    tags: buddhism, inspirational, spiritual
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, religion
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: nonviolence
    131 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Love is the strongest force the world possesses.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Gautama Buddha
    “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
    ― Buddha
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    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
    tags: inspirational
    2585 likes

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    Gautama Buddha
    “Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: beliefs, doubt, faith
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
    6423 likes

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    Jim C. Hines
    “Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

    [Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
    ― Jim C. Hines
    tags: freedom-of-speech, stupidity
    307 likes

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    Edward Abbey
    “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
    ― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
    tags: capitalism, greed, growth
    756 likes



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