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    John Lennon
    “Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: ego, god, life, loser
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: ego, fame, openness, patience, receptivity
    939 likes

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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: altruism, care, caring, designer, ego, happiness, life, love, nobody, self-love, self-sacrifice, selfish, wisdom
    1138 likes

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  • #4
    George Clooney
    “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”
    ― George Clooney
    tags: arrogance, education, ego, speech
    287 likes

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    Chögyam Trungpa
    “Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.”
    ― Chögyam Trungpa
    tags: ego, enlightenment
    304 likes

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  • #6
    Philip K. Dick
    “The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self
    691 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
    4200 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “Laughter is the language of the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    Criss Jami
    “When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: artists, deep-thoughts, digging, enjoyment, learning, metaphorical, pain, poet, scenery, strength-through-adversity, unstoppable, writing
    348 likes

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  • #10
    Frank Zappa
    “Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: politics, republicans
    135 likes

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  • #11
    Jimmy Carter
    “Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
    ”
    ― Jimmy Carter
    tags: politics, republicans
    88 likes

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    John Leguizamo
    “Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid. ”
    ― John Leguizamo
    tags: humor, politics, republicans
    46 likes

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  • #13
    Bill Maher
    “Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: healthcare, republicans, tiger-woods
    19 likes

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  • #14
    Noel Langley
    “Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.”
    ― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay
    tags: magic, nobody, see, wizard
    17 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret—but so is the fact that she admires me.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
    64 likes

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  • #16
    Rudyard Kipling
    “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
    tags: humanity, isolation, lies, loneliness, misunderstanding
    673 likes

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    Natsuki Takaya
    “We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition, Vol. 3
    tags: fruits-basket, kindness, misunderstanding
    367 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
    tags: little-things, misunderstanding
    214 likes

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  • #19
    Whitney Otto
    “she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.”
    ― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
    tags: admiration, crush
    56 likes

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    Ntozake Shange
    “i usedta live in the world
    really be in the world
    free & sweet talkin
    good mornin & thank-you & nice day
    uh huh
    i cant now
    i cant be nice to nobody
    nice is such a rip-off
    regular beauty & a smile in the street
    is just a set-up”
    ― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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    Ntozake Shange
    “i'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry”
    ― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
    tags: fault, human
    21 likes

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    Ntozake Shange
    “Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.”
    ― Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: money, ridiculous, talent, the-idiot
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    Jarod Kintz
    “You and I have a love so secret that not even you know about it. But first, let me introduce myself.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
    389 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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  • #27
    Susan Ornbratt
    “sometimes stories and books are all that we need to take us away”
    ― Susan Örnbratt
    tags: bibliophile, books, reading
    6 likes

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  • #28
    Terence McKenna
    “Only psychos and shamans create their own reality”
    ― Terence McKenna
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  • #29
    Tamora Pierce
    “Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
    Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”
    ― Tamora Pierce , Trickster's Choice
    tags: aly, cat, cats, curiosity, fesgao
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Milan Kundera
    “Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: answers, barriers, boundaries, children, existence, questions
    387 likes



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