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#1

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

tags: happiness, inspirational, love, optimism, strength

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#3

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

tags: sense-of-wonder

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#4

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: beauty, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#5

“As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed, or my perception of it. It ripped apart like a dry skin under pressure, giving way to something I can only describe as ineffable dimensions, depths upon depths.”
― Stefan Emunds, The Priest Whisperer

tags: contemporary-christianity, contemporary-religion, enlightenment, gnosis, great-work, illumination, mysticism, path-of-enlightenment, prophecy, revelation, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

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#6

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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#7

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#8

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self

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#9

“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: cosmos, religion, science

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#10

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox

tags: consciousness, cosmos, inspirational, life, universe

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#11

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animal, bad, black, cosmic, cosmos, darkness, darks, dualities, dust, earth, evil, fire, galaxy, good, light, lights, man, mimic, moon, ocean, planets, polarities, salt, sea, solar-system, space, sun, suzy-kassem, swimming, universal, universe, white, wind, woman

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#12

“I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.”
― R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet

tags: cosmos, inspirational, purpose, r-j-anderson, ultraviolet

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#13

“Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: beyond, comprehension, cosmos, earth, fools, labels, world

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#14

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#15

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”
― Stephen King

tags: inspirational, philosophy

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#16

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: cynicism, human, life, philosophy, wisdom

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#17

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

tags: inspirational, philosophy

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#18

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

tags: death, faith, going-home, grace, healing, home-going, inner-peace, innocence, killed-in-the-line-of-duty, life-and-death, light, philosophy, poem-in-your-pocket-day, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, spiritual-nature, spiritual-philosophy, spirituality, victims-of-gun-violence, victims-of-war, war, war-victims

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#19

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: love, philosophy

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#20

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
― K.L. Toth

tags: confusion, identity, loss, mask, philosophy, sadness, self, sense-of-self, tragedy

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#21

“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Broken Angels

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion

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#22

“No man was ever wise by chance”
― Seneca

tags: philosophy

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#23

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#24

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

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#25

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

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#26

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

4028 likes

#27

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46483 likes

#28

“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

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#29

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
― Thomas Szasz

tags: humor, inspirational

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#30

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

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#31

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

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