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#1

“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

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#2

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophers, philosophy

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#3

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read

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#4

“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives."

"The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling."

"Of course, women so empowered are dangerous. So we are taught to separate the erotic from most vital areas of our lives other than sex.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: erotic, inspirational, political, sexuality, social, women

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#5

“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?”
― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

tags: community, compassion, empathy, feminism, intersectionality, oppression, self-reflection

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#6

“To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond. If I look at my most vulnerable places and acknowledge the pain I have felt, I can remove the source of that pain from my enemies' arsenals. My history cannot be used to feather my enemies' arrows then, and that lessens their power over me. Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.”
― Audre Lorde

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#7

“The fear of our desires keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance.”
― Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

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#8

“We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.”
― David Icke

tags: conformity, equality, humanity, society

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#9

“The reason we are so controlled is not that we don't have the power to decide our own destiny, it is that we give that power away every minute of our lives. When something happens that we don't like, we look for someone else to blame. When there is a problem in the world, we say "What are they going to do about it". At which point they, who have secretly created the problem in the first place, respond to this demand by introducing a 'solution' - more centralisation of power and erosion of freedom. If you want to give more powers to the police, security agencies and military, and you want the public to demand you do it, then ensure there is more crime, violence and terrorism, and then it's a cinch to achieve your aims. Once the people are in fear of being burgled, mugged or bombed, they will demand that you take their freedom away to protect them from what they have been manipulated to fear. The Oklahoma bombing is a classic of this kind, as I detail in ..And The Truth Shall Set You Free. I call this technique problem-reaction-solution.

Create the problem, encourage the reaction "something must be done", and then offer the solution. It is summed up by the Freemason motto 'Ordo Ab Chao' -order out of chaos. Create the chaos and then offer the way to restore order. Your order. The masses are herded and directed by many and varios forms of emotional and mental control. It is the only way it coud be done.”
― David Icke

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#10

“Any writing exposes writers to judgment about the quality of their work and their thought. The closer they get to painful personal truths, the more fear mounts—not just about what they might reveal but about what they might discover should they venture too deeply inside. To write well, however, that’s exactly where we must venture.”
― Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

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#11

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”
― John Connolly, The Infernals

tags: existing, happiness, hard, life, living, love, loving, passion, purpose, simple, surviving

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#12

“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust

tags: art, connections

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#13

“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

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#14

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: conformity, education, feminism, knowledge-power, quip, school

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#15

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”
― Rollo May

tags: conformity

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#16

“We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

tags: coercion, conformity, conventionality, creation, diversity, expansion, freedom, group-mentality, group-think, individuation, self-expression, sheeple, spiritual-life, universe

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#17

“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: conformity, eleanor-roosevelt, individuality

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#18

“Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. Listen to your inner voice. It is the calling of your spiritual GPS system seeking to keep you on track towards your true destiny.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

tags: anthon-st-maarten, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairempathy, clairsentience, clairvoyance, destiny, destiny-quotes, emotion, emotional-guidance-system, emotions, empath, free-will, fulfilling-purpose, fulfilling-your-destiny, gps, guidance-system, inner-guidance, inner-guidance-system, inner-guide, inner-self, inner-voice, intuition, intuition-quotes, intuitions, intuitive-development, life-lessons, life-mission, life-plan, life-purpose, omen, precognition, predestination, premonition, signs, soul-plan, soul-purpose, spiritual-guidance, spiritual-path, synchronicity, true-destiny

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#19

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

tags: approval, positive-thoughts, self-compassion, self-criticism, self-esteem, you-can-heal-your-life

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#20

“If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who “did all that stuff to you” were just as frightened and scared as you are.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

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#21

“Love who and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life, and nothing can touch you. It’s all temporary anyway. Next lifetime you will do it differently anyway, so why not do it differently right now?”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

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#22

“If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go! There is no written law that says that because you once believed something, you have to continue to believe it forever.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

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#23

“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

tags: comapssion, compassion, compassion-quotes, inner-child, inner-dialogue, inner-guidance, inner-light, inner-peace, inner-self, inner-strength, inner-voice, inner-world, kindness, meditation, spirituality

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#24

“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
― Vernon Howard

tags: direction, guidance, inner-guidance, listening, self-awareness

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#25

“Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

tags: belief-quotes, faith, faith-in-god, guardian-angels, inner-guidance, inspirational-quotes, law-of-attraction-books, law-of-attraction-quotes, miracle-qoutes, miracle-quotes, personal-growth, spiritual-quotes, success-quotes

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#26

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says “come hither” to be reason enough to go.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: adventure, authentic-self, authenticity, identity, inner-guidance, inner-wisdom, unique, uniqueness, who-you-are

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#27

“Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

tags: healing, hope, insecurity, mindfulness, self-hate, self-hatred, self-loathing, thinking

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#28

“If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: disrespect, relationships, respect, self-compassion, self-knowledge, self-love, self-understanding

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#29

“It is almost as if we are all playing a big game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the seeker. We stand behind the wall, at first excited, then worried, then bored, then anxious, then angry. We hide and hide. After a while, the game is not fun anymore. Where is my seeker? Where is the person who is supposed to come find me here in my protected shell and cut me open? Where is that one who will make me trust him, make me comfortable, make me feel whole? Some people rot on the spot, waiting for the seeker that never comes. The most important truth that I can relate to you, if you are hiding and waiting, is that the seeker is you and the world, behind so many walls, awaits.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

tags: authenticity, hiding, relationships, self-protection, truth, vulnerability

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#30

“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

tags: addiction, connection, consumerism, hope, love, materialism, spirituality

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