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#1

“It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

tags: words

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#3

“We don't lose ourselves in parenthood. We find parts of ourselves we never knew existed.”
― L.R. Knost

tags: child, children, father, fatherhood, mother, motherhood, parent, parenthood, parenting

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#5

“The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.”
― Elaine S. Dalton

tags: fatherhood, love

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#6

“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: communicate, communication, control, convey, dialogue, doors, exchange, ideas, ignorance, intellect, interpret, interpretation, language, meaning, misinterpretated, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstanding, peace, power, power-of-words, reading, right-word, sentence, speaking, suzy-kassem, talking, thinking, thought, tones, translation, underestimate, understand, understanding, war, wars, word, words, writing

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#8

“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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#9

“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”
― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

tags: boundaries, parenting

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#13

“It’s the beating of my heart.
The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. It’s the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I’d found whatever I thought I had found, or wanted, or needed, and I started to collect my belongings. Build a home. Safe behind the comfort of these four walls and a closed door.
Because as much as I tried or pretended or imagined myself as a part of all the people out there,
I was still the one locking the door every night.
Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home.
’cause I was never really well around the expectations of my personality
and I wanted to keep to myself.
and because I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places.
Or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

tags: alone, awake, berlin, candles, doors, expectations, found, home, impressed, lonely, lost, lost-love, love, moon, moonlight, night, people, personality, places, shadows, solitude, thoughts, travel, wall, wander, wandering, window

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#14

“Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between that lead to adventures and madness and- here he smiled- even love. Without doors the worlds would grow stagnant, calcified, storyless.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

tags: change, doors, stories

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#16

“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day and you must build your own.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

tags: arms, doors, find-your-home, goals, growing-up, home, hurt, hurts, leave, love, memoir, myself, people, persistence, poverty, prose, prose-poetry, realisation, roads, songwriter, time-zones, travelling, walking, wandering, widow, youth

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#18

“Be an opener of doors”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: assistance, doors, passion, success

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#20

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: alone, apathetic, bed, books, bored, care, desert, doors, grief, house, leave, let-in, lonely, loss, numb, people, poems, poetry, recovery, they, tumblr-poetry, tumblr-writers, unimpressed, wind

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#20

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.”
― Melissa Senate

tags: confidence, curiosity, fearless, self-confidence

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#22

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: attitude, chances, doors, entrance, exit, opportunities, passage, transition

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#23

“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: doors, future, inspirational, life

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#24

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

tags: akeelah, fear, inspirational

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#25

“She scoured the Earth, wandering and ravenous, looking for doors. And she found them. She found them in abandoned churches and the salt-rimed walls of caves, in graveyards and behind fluttering curtains in foreign markets. She found so many her imagining of the world grew lacy and tattered with holes, like a mouse-chewed map.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

tags: discoveries, doors, reading

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#26

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: death, earth, science

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#27

“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: neil-degrasse-tyson

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#30

“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos

tags: galaxies, science, stars, universe

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#31

“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: cosmology, inspirational, philosophy, science

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#32

“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. ”
― Anthony Standen

tags: activism, awareness, conciousness, conscience, education, social-conscience, social-justice

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#34

“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

tags: ignorance, knowledge

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#35

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: congratulations, encourage, encouraging, succeed, success

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#37

“It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?”
― David Foster Wallace

tags: david-foster-wallace

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#40

“We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Because we will be action and education focused, and forgo validation and status, our ambition will not be grandiose but iterative—one foot in front of the other, learning and growing and putting in the time.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

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#41

“There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

tags: education, education-equality, education-reform, freedom

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#44

“Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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#45

“The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can’t absorb a few blows, it wasn’t worth anything in the first place.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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#46

“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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#47

“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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