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  • #213
    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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  • #214
    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
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  • #215
    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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  • #216
    Virginia Woolf
    “The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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  • #217
    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing
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  • #218
    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: books, library
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  • #219
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #220
    Virginia Woolf
    “I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #221
    Virginia Woolf
    “To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #222
    E.E. Cummings
    “i like my body when it is with your
    body. It is so quite new a thing.
    Muscles better and nerves more.
    i like your body. i like what it does,
    i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
    of your body and its bones, and the trembling
    -firm-smooth ness and which i will
    again and again and again
    kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
    i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
    of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
    over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,

    and possibly i like the thrill

    of under me you so quite new.”
    ― e.e. cummings
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #223
    E.E. Cummings
    “somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near”
    ― e.e. cummings
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  • #224
    Michael Cunningham
    “What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
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  • #225
    “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
    ― Bob Samples
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  • #226
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
    9424 likes

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  • #227
    Lao Tzu
    “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching
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  • #228
    Lao Tzu
    “Countless words
    count less
    than the silent balance
    between yin and yang”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: chinese-literature, classics, tao-te-ching
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  • #229
    Lao Tzu
    “Close your mouth,
    block off your senses,
    blunt your sharpness,
    untie your knots,
    soften your glare,
    settle your dust.
    This is the primal identity.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Literal Translation With an Introduction, Notes, and Commentary
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  • #230
    Lao Tzu
    “Love

    Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
    Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.
    Clearing your vision, you become clear.
    Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.
    Opening your heart, you become accepted.
    Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.
    Bearing and nurturing,
    Creating but not owning,
    Giving without demanding,
    Controlling without authority,
    This is love.”
    ― Laozi, The Teachings of Lao-Tzu: The Tao-Te Ching
    tags: love
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  • #231
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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  • #232
    Lao Tzu
    “Love is a decision - not an emotion!”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: decision, emotion, love
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  • #233
    Lao Tzu
    “With no desire, at rest and still, All things go right as of their will.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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  • #234
    Lao Tzu
    “Therefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties their minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens their bones.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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  • #235
    Lao Tzu
    “Without opening your door,
    you can open your heart to the world.
    Without looking out your window,
    you can see the essence of the Tao.


    The more you know,
    the less you understand.

    The Master arrives without leaving,
    sees the light without looking,
    achieves without doing a thing.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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  • #236
    Lao Tzu
    “The world belongs to those who let go.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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  • #237
    Lao Tzu
    “To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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  • #238
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #239
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
    10850 likes

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  • #240
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
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  • #241
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
    6726 likes

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  • #242
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
    6814 likes



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