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#1

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience

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#2

“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

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#3

“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.

In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”
― Tim Wise

tags: american-culture, black-and-white, black-history, george-zimmerman, hypocricy, isms, privilege, race-relations, racism, the-oj-simpson-trial, trayvon-martin, white-privilege, willful-ignorance

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#4

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

tags: actions, habits, values

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#5

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

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#6

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

tags: habits

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#7

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#8

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

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#9

“As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#10

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

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#11

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#12

“The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"

"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: religion

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#13

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#14

“The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

tags: busyness, contemplation, thinking

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#15

“You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny.”
― Upanishads

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#16

“I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally friendly and a lovely treat for the larger carnivores. Could you request that?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#17

“Free-form jigging, communal shapes in the air; Dancing was easy!...YMCA! YMCA! Arms in the air, mimicking the letters - what a marvelous idea! Who knew that dancing could be so logical? ...From my limited exposure to popular music, people did seem to sing about umbrellas and firstarting and Emily Bronte novels, so, I supposed, why not a gender-and faith-based youth organization?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: dancing, songs

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#18

“It seemed there was an announcement every five minutes from the mythical conductor, imparting sagacious gems such as "large items should be placed in the overhead luggage racks", or that "passengers should report any unattended items to the train crew as soon as possible". I wondered at whom these pearls of wisdom were aimed; some passing extraterrestrial, perhaps, or a yak herder from Ulan Bator who had trekked across the steppes, sailed the North Sea, and found himself on the Glasgow-Edinburgh service with literally no prior experience of mechanized transport to call upon?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#19

“I was in a fast-food restaurant for the first time in my adult life, an enormous and garish place just around the corner from the music venue. It was mystifyingly, inexplicably busy. I wondered why humans would willingly queue at a counter to request processed food, then carry it to a table which was not even set, and then eat it from the paper? Afterward, despite having paid for it, the customer themselves are responsible for clearing away the detritus. Very strange.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: humor

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#20

“Help from a stranger is better than sympathy from a relative.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: helping-others

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#21

“It is impossible for light not to get noticed, especially in the dark.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: dark-quotes, darkness-quotes, enlightenment-quotes, guru-quotes, light-quotations, light-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, sage-quotes, spiritual-quotes, spirituality-quotes

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#22

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#23

“To become fit requires discomfort, to earn a significant income requires discomfort, to become great at anything, requires you to pay the price. ..

To become great, you must choose to allocate your time to your greatest opportunities. You will have to choose to spend time on the difficult things that create your biggest payoffs. To be great you will need to live with intention. That will require you to be clear on what matters most, and then to have the courage to say no to things that distract you.”
― Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year

tags: courage, focus, greatness, intention

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#24

“Intentionality is your secret weapon in your war on mediocrity.”
― Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

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#25

“the number-one thing that you will have to sacrifice to be great, to achieve what you are capable of, and to execute your plans, is your comfort.”
― Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

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#26

“They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You're being punished by your anger.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

tags: anger

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#27

“Fall down eight times, stand up nine. For me, this saying is less about the dead paving the way for future generations than it is for the women of Jeju. We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren't brave. Now you need to be braver still.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

tags: inspirational, women

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#28

“Who can name a death that was not tragic?” the speaker asks. “Is there a way for us to find meaning in the losses we've suffered? Who can say that one soul has a heavier grievance than another? We were all victims. We need to forgive each other.”

Remember? Yes. Forgive? No.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

tags: anger, forgiveness, injustice

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#29

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#30

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

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