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#1

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.”
― David Foster Wallace

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#3

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#4

“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
― David Foster Wallace

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#5

“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
― David Foster Wallace

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#6

“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: love

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#7

“I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: wandering

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#8

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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#9

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

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#10

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

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#11

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: crying, life, reality

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#12

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
― Goethe

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#13

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: character, misattributed, nobility

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#14

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#15

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

tags: emotions, heart, irrationality, romanticism

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#16

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography

tags: education, encouragement, instruction, learning, school

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#17

“I laugh at my heart, and do its will.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#18

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
― Basil King

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#19

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#20

“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#21

“The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#22

“Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#23

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: competition, education, learning, teaching

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#24

“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, joy, new, past

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#25

“It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#26

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: fear, suffering

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#27

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: fear

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#28

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: desire, fear, human-nature

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#29

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

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#30

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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