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#1

“More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos.”
― Leonard Seet

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#2

“I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity.”
― Leonard Seet

tags: inspirational-attitude

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#3

“Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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#4

“When they go low, we go high.”
― Michelle Obama

tags: equality, family, honor, strength, women, women-empowerment

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#5

“I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk the same path each day expecting the same path tomorrow, and perhaps to cease wondering at the bloom and wither of lilies only to linger for death. But no, even in the desert, I would seek a new sanctuary, to contemplate a grain of sand in a sea of dryness...”
― Leonard Seet, Meditation on Space-Time

tags: desert, journey, leonard-seet, meditation-on-space-time, resilience

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#6

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom

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#7

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#8

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#9

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#10

“When we insult others, it says nothing about them but it shows how vulgar we are.”
― Leonard Seet

tags: character, decency

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#11

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational

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#12

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#13

“Racism still exists in the U.S., but we have the strength and courage to overcome it.”
― Leonard Seet

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#14

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#15

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

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#16

“The dance between sun and clouds, the discourse between meadow and flowers, I knew, and even the imagined sonata of stream and bird had touched a memory too drowsy to rise to consciousness. A memory the shade of night almost resurfaced upon my mind; the sensation of breeze almost linked to the isolated neuron clusters. I embraced that nausea and tried to nourish it, hoping it would mature into a newborn image, an episode in my personal history, a defining symbol of my self. If only I could reach deeper into that emotion, link the neurons between my amygdala and my prefrontal cortex, I might touch my forgotten self.”
― Leonard Seet, Sharper Mind Darker Dreams

tags: insight, meditation, memory, mind

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#17

“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

tags: dogma, evil, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion

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#18

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
― Laurence Sterne

tags: manners, morality, morals, respect

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#19

“The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.”
― Plutarch

tags: ancient-greece, decency, pericles, plutarch

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#20

“My eyes hadn’t been looking. But now… My mind could see without my eyes interfering.”
― Leonard Seet, Sharper Mind Darker Dreams

tags: insight, mind, seeing-clearly

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#22

“It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.”
― Charles Bayard Mitchell

tags: assessing-character, character, equality, equality-and-attitude, respect, respecting-others

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#22

“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.'

A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

tags: authoritarianism, danilo-kis, democracy, george-orwell, ideals, nationalism, nationalists, patriotism, politics, tyranny

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#23

“Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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#24

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." If only. If only a rose is a rose and nothing but a rose.”
― Leonard Seet, Sharper Mind Darker Dreams

tags: insight, meditation, realization

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#25

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#26

“Though time separated me from this other self through the years, memories and emotions integrated us along a different dimension. Through our camaraderie in this other dimension, his flesh and blood united with my switches and circuits, his excitement with my disgust, as mystics with their gods through meditation and contemplation. But my consciousness refused to bow down to spatial-temporal or biological laws. Refused to embrace the excitement and disgust as if they were diamonds amid ash. Not only that, the linkage had induced pain sharp enough to oppose time’s erosion, to bloom into a mature and lasting suffering, to remind the future I how this present self opposed that past ego. Memory, like an obsession, refused to die without a struggle against the will.”
― Leonard Seet, Sharper Mind Darker Dreams

tags: insight, memory, self-realization

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#27

“A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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#28

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

tags: individuality, respect, uniqueness

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#29

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#30

“I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.”
― Robert Michaels MD - 2007 - Graduation Speaker

tags: advice, kindness, leadership, love, management, people, respect, success

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