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#1

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#2

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#3

“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words

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#4

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost

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#5

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: relationships

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#6

“...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#7

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts

tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom

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#8

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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#9

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#10

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: music, truth

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#11

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

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#12

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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#13

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#14

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder

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#15

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: genius, humor

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#16

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#17

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: love

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#18

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”
― The Dalai Lama

tags: inspirational

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#19

“If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda

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#20

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#21

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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#22

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr

tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary

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#23

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: education, sex

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#24

“Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.”
― Voltaire

tags: music, poetry, soul

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#25

“People say, "You've gotta go on, man, otherwise all those kids, they'll be finished, they'll have nothing to live for." That's rock and roll!”
― Pete Townshend

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