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“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

tags: buddhism, buddhist, inspirational, radical-acceptance

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“Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: appreciation, gratitude, happiness, inspirational, knowing-oneself, life, motivational, self-empowerment, success

291 likes

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics

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“Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.”
― David Halberstam

tags: ambition, curiosity, lifelong-learning, reading

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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: education, education-system, instituions

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