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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Socrates
    “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: love
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Plato
    “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
    ― Plato
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
    tags: happiness, ideals, nostalgia, real, truth, youth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
    tags: painted, veil
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”
    ― William Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding
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    Jarod Kintz
    “One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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    Adrienne Rich
    “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
    ― Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
    tags: dishonesty, lies, silence, words
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    Criss Jami
    “Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: aggravation, concealment, confusion, contemplation, dishonesty, hardcore, honesty, lie, lying, never, pain, provoke, secrecy, secrets, thinkers, thought, torture, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
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    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
    “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, blessings, compassion, generosity, giving, helping-others, kindness, life, success
    870 likes

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    Elvis Presley
    “People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.”
    ― Elvis Presley
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    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
    1604 likes



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