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#1

“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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#2

“If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

tags: existentialism, nihilism, philosphy

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#3

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
― Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script

tags: art, artist, despair, emptiness, hope, meaning-of-life, purpose, purpose-in-life

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#4

“Become totally empty
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness”
― Laotzu

tags: emptiness

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#5

“I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: existentialism, nihilism

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#6

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies

tags: books, doctor-who, knowledge, library, reading, weapons

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#7

“We're all stories, in the end.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: amy-pond, doctor-who, eleven, steven-moffat, stories

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#8

“قد تكون قصة غيرك هي الفصل الأول من قصتك وأنت لا تدرى؟!”
― محمد عبد الحليم عبد الله

tags: غصن-الزيتون

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#9

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#10

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

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#11

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."

(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend

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#12

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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#13

“Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe”
― Susan Cain

tags: introverts

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#14

“The limited circle is pure.”
― Franz Kafka

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#15

“The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.”
― Brent Runyon, The Burn Journals: A Memoir

tags: introversion, introvert, introverts

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#16

“I was born as a forest, but I feel overwhelmed by all these trees.”
― theladyfidgets

tags: introverts

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#17

“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

tags: introvert, introverts, readers, reading, red-rising

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#18

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

tags: humans, philosophy, society

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#19

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: reading, reading-books

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#20

“ليس الخراب بطولة أن البطولة في البناء”
― إدريس جماع, لحظات باقية

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#21

“حين يصل الكاتب عادة إلى الصفحة الأخيرة، تكون أغلى أمنية لديه أن يقرأ الناس كتابه بعد مائة أو مائتي عام. وبالطبع، لا يمكن التكهن بذلك، فهناك كتب أراد لها مؤلفوها الخلود ثم انطفأت غداة صدورها، في حين أن كتاباً قد يبقى، وكنا نخاله مجرد ترفيه لتلامذة المدراس. غير أن الأمل لا يفارقنا. أما هذا الكتاب الذي ليس ترفيهاً ولا عملاً أدبياً، فسوف أتمنى بشأنه عكس ذلك، أن يكتشفه حفيدي يوماً، وقد أصبح راشداً، مصادفةً في مكتبة العائلة، فيتصفحه ويقرأ بعض صفحاته، ثم يعيده فوراً إلى الرف المغطى بالغبار حيث تناوله، مستخفاً ومندهشاً للحاجة إلى قول هذه الأمور في الزمن الذي عاش فيه جده..”
― أمين معلوف, الهويات القاتلة

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#22

“An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-better, be-kind, clever, comments, embarrassment, fake, give-people-space, google-plus, hidden-agendas, humor, jabs, let-it-go, lighten-up, listen-more, obvious, open-wall, pinterest, posting, quotes, reality, run-away, self-respect, social-media, truthful, wakeup-call, walk-away, women

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#23

“Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun

1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: bickering, ending-fights, fake, fake-christians, games, get-real, hidden-agendas, humor, hypocrisy, insecure-women, insecurity, jealous-women, low-self-esteem, stalking-women

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#24

“When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: agendas, arrogance, bad-choices, bakersfield, careers, caring-too-much, carr, choices, clarity, comeback-stories, commonsense, compassion, competition, conclusions, confidence, contradictions, dignity, evolution, extremes, faith, families, family, feelings, found, freedom, freeman, freno, friends, goals, god-s-plan, guardian-angels, happiness, heart, helping-others, heritage, hidden-agendas, houston, ignorance, insecurity, integrity, introspection, jealousy, justice, kindness, lack-of-integrity, learning, life, life-direction, life-purpose, life-stories, living, lost, love, mind, misleading, overcoming, perception, philosophy, plans, playing-field, quality-of-life, self-esteem-101, self-love, self-respect, speculation, spiritual-growth, stayingpositiveu-com, superiority, transformation, truth, vision, white-path, winning, wrong-choices

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#25

“victim
noun \ˈvik-təm\

1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-real, dignity, emotional-responses, emotions, excuses, games, games-people-pleay, hidden-agendas, honesty, illness, live-truthfully, live-with-dignity, mental-disorders, mental-illness, truth, victom

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#26

“Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: acknowledge, acting, blind, catch, detect, discover, dumb, expose, eye-opener, eyes, have-the-last-laugh, hidden-agendas, idiot, in-the-act, naive, nonchalant, play-the-fool, playing-dumb, reveal, see, see-things-as-they-are, spoil, stupid, trap, trick, truth, uncover, unveil

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#27

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#28

“The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that's beautiful. And that's okay.In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: color, culture, difference, differences, equality, government, harmony, human, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, peace, race, society, unity

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#29

“You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: honor, pride

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#30

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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