Joe's quotes

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""Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.""
— Rush Limbaugh

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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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"Truth is one, paths are many."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"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: fear, inspirational
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: insanity, society
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"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: nietzsche, readers, reading
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"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
— Molière

tags: writing
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"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!"
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'"
— Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)

tags: demons, happiness, judgement, kronofobi, life, reincarnation, sadness
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"Only sick music makes money today."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: sinister
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"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, vision, visionaries
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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: failure, intelligence, process, science, scientific, success, truth
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"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: exercise, intelligence, thinking, walking
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"To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: strategy, virtue
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"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: admiration, appreciation, distraction, obstacles
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"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Dangerous books.— Somebody remarked: “I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. "
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: character, experience, meat
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"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: faith, god, jesus
266 people liked it

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

tags: greatness
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"If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred."
— Krishna Dharma

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"My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it."
— Brennan Manning (The Ragamuffin Gospel)

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"'Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: bible, jesus
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"If you have an apple and I have an apple,
and we exchange apples,
We each have one apple.
If you have an idea and I have an idea,
and we exchange ideas,
We each have two ideas."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
— George Bernard Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession)

tags: censorship, free, progress, speech
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"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: fame, publishing, rejections
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
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