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"..This goodly frame, the
earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most
excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? "
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: hamlet, piece-of-work, quintessence-of-dust, shakespeare, soliloquy, william-shakespeare
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"Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: life
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: motivational, scifi
371 people liked it

"The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth."
— Frank Herbert (Children of Dune)

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"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive."
— Frank Herbert

tags: dune
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
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"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
— Natalie Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within)

tags: soul, writing
60 people liked it

"The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,201 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
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"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

tags: books, reading
740 people liked it

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
341 people liked it

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
— Jay McInerney (The Last of the Savages)

tags: family, friendship, humor
308 people liked it

"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: eastern, inspirational, philosophy
250 people liked it

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: life, reality
83 people liked it

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. "
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: love
6 people liked it

"the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead"
— Frank Herbert

tags: death
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
— Frank Herbert (Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition)

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"the mind can go either way under stress - towards positive or negative........the way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training"
— Frank Herbert

tags: stress
4 people liked it

"...you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

tags: writing
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"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
— Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire
65 people liked it

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

tags: family, first-sentence
174 people liked it

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
— Leo Tolstoy

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"If you want to be happy, be."
— Leo Tolstoy

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"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead)

tags: happiness, man, trouble
142 people liked it

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

91 people liked it

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

tags: god, grief, night
74 people liked it

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: addiction, psyche, psychology
25 people liked it

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
66 people liked it

"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has eve known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?"
— Irvin D. Yalom (Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy)

tags: psychology
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"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration
137 people liked it

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: business, love
76 people liked it

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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""To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking." "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,637 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
677 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare
448 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

370 people liked it

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Act 5, scene 5, 19–28 "
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

308 people liked it

"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal"
— William Shakespeare

348 people liked it

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