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    Zain Hashmi
    “remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other twenty percent.”
    ― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
    tags: islam, motivational, spirituality, sufi
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    Zain Hashmi
    “Small good decisions will lead you to the glorious path of success.”
    ― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
    tags: decision, glory, islam, spirituality, success, sufi
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    Zain Hashmi
    “Happiness comes from helping others, by being with others, and by sharing, even if it's only a smile.”
    ― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
    tags: happiness, helping, islam, sharing, smile, spirituality, sufi
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    “These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.”
    ― The Shawshank Redemption
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: fyodor-dostoyevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: desire, fyodor-dostoyevsky, pleasure
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: destructiveness, greed, materialism, needs, selfishness, vice
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: communication, confusion
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: honesty, integerity
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Beauty will save the world.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
    tags: beauty
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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