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#1

“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.”
― Vine Deloria Jr.

tags: native-american-wisdom, religion, spirituality

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#2

“How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: giving, honesty, life, sharing, time

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#3

“The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: after-death, blessings, breathe, breathing, daily-life, death, faith, giving, grave, immortal, immortality, inspiration, life, life-and-living, living, love-world, name, survival, truth, universe, writing

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#4

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity, dogs, sharing

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#5

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

tags: agape, brotherly-love, charity, compassion

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#6

“Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.”
― Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

tags: charity, hebrew, justice, language, poor

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#7

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
― Dorothy Day

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#8

“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer, the mixed-blood, the violated-turning to the written page with a relentless passion, a drive to avenge their own silence, invisibility, and erasure as living, innately expressive human beings.”
― Cherrie Moraga

tags: chicana, feminist, the-last-generation

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#9

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

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#10

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
― Meister Eckhart

tags: gratitude, prayer

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#11

“I hurt people, once.'
'Did they deserve to be hurt?'
Grandma touched Meche's chin. 'Don't they always, when you're a girl?”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

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#12

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

5236 likes

#13

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

4835 likes

#14

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
― Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

tags: birthday, gratitude, maya-angelou, oprah

1361 likes

#15

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
― Stephen W. Hawking

tags: appreciation, carpe-diem, expectations, gratitude, life, misfortunes, spirit, strength, unbreakable-spirit

644 likes

#16

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

tags: gratitude

173 likes

#17

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

4501 likes

#18

“in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me”
― E.E. Cummings

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#19

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

tags: poetry, science, stars

3427 likes

#20

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

3104 likes

#21

“The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe.”
― Joanna Macy

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#22

“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: falling-in-love

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#23

“I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: death

271 likes

#24

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
― Edgar Mitchell

tags: astronaut, humanity, moon, politics, science, space, world

364 likes

#25

“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War

tags: captain-america, right, truth

340 likes

#26

“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

tags: captain-america, comic, graphic-novel, marvel

62 likes

#27

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog

tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep

669 likes

#28

“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

234 likes

#29

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

tags: crisis, decisions, love, poems, poetry

101 likes

#30

“For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?
- Aragorn about Éowyn”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: aragorn, eowyn, jrr-tolkien, the-lord-of-the-rings, the-return-of-the-king, éowyn

90 likes

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