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#1

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: In His Own Words

tags: change

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#2

“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: appreciate, change, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, laugh, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, love, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, relationship, respect, smile, value

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#3

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler

tags: change, god

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#4

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
― Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

tags: anger, caring-too-much, change, cruelty, damage, depression, dismissing, envy, games, heart, hurting-others, ignoring, jealousy, not-caring, pain, rejecting, resentment, retaliation, revenge, seeking-revenge, self-abuse, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-help, self-worth, sorrow, spiritual-growth, unkindness, vengance

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#5

“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

tags: change

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#6

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James

tags: actions, attributed, change

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#7

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#8

“When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.

When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.

Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.

And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: american-writers, death, i-shall-not-be-moved, life, maya-angelou, peace, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets, soul, souls, trees, when-great-trees-fall, writers, writing

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#9

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

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#10

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy

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#11

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

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#12

“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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#13

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#14

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

tags: philosophy, wayfinding

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#15

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

tags: addiction, life-lessons, philosophy, thinking, thoughts

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#16

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: dumbledore, philosophy

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#17

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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#18

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: fear, philosophy

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#19

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought

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#20

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder

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#21

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

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#22

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

tags: philosophy

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#23

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: communication, inspirational, philosophy

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#24

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: life, philosophy, wisdom

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#25

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb

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#26

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: people, philosophy

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#27

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

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#28

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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#29

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

tags: catholicism, christian-living, christianity, gift, god, inspirational, philosophy, spirituality

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#30

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

tags: humour, philosophy, religion, soul

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