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    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
    4373 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise
    4149 likes

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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding
    2469 likes

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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
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    John Steinbeck
    “Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, hatred, understanding
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
    2120 likes

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  • #12
    “Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: focus, illusion, life, understanding
    963 likes

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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, understanding
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    Upton Sinclair
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
    tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
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    Criss Jami
    “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: adversity, alone, beautiful, compassion, difficulties, finding-oneself, hardship, humanity, loneliness, misunderstanding, pain, sadness, solitude, understanding
    772 likes

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    Nicholas Sparks
    “I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer
    tags: friends, moving-on, understanding
    657 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: explanations, understanding
    637 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “If you know the why, you can live any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, understanding
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    Kim Harrison
    “...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
    until you do understand.”
    ― Kim Harrison
    tags: empathy, kindness, understanding
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    Gautama Buddha
    “True love is born from understanding.”
    ― The Buddha
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32130 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31473 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5972 likes

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    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
    4689 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
    4794 likes

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  • #28
    “If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.”
    ― Wes Nisker
    tags: activism, media, news
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  • #29
    “Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: arrow, edia, liar, lie, lies, lying, media, news, snake, straightforward, trust, truth
    40 likes

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    Santosh Kalwar
    “The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar
    tags: media, news, public, puppet
    15 likes



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