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#1

“Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.”
― Matthew Henry, An exposition of the Old and New Testament Volume 6

tags: gender-stereotypes, men-and-women

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#2

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― pleasefindthis

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#3

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

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#4

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

tags: inspiration, life

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#5

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

tags: best, build, find, forgiveness, forgiving, heart, love, nurture, people, understand, understanding

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#6

“Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

tags: being-supportive, healing, human-being, inspirational, listen, listening, wisdom, wise-words

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#7

“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: appoint, appointed, appointment, behavior, behaviour, character, commander, elect, elected, election, enthrone, examplary, example, faithful, faithfully, father, followers, function, grey-hair, honest, honesty, human-being, human-face, influence, inspire, integrity, israelmore-ayivor, lead, lead-people, leader, leaders, leadership, leadership-qualities, manager, officer, opinion, ordain, pastor, personal-branding, popular-opinion, position, potential, purpose, qualities, self-leaders, self-leadership, self-made, servant, sincere, sincerity, teacher, true-leader, true-leaders, true-leadership, truthful, truthfulness, universal

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#8

“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: alone, leaving, moving

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#9

“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”
― Dean Jackson

tags: butterfly, change, transformation, woman

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#10

“I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Quatrains of Rumi: Ruba 'Iyat- Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi

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#11

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
― Robert Browning

tags: growing-old, old-age

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#12

“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ”
― Edwin Schlossberg

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#13

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

tags: love, weirdness

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#14

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
― Jon Katz

tags: faith, friends, friendship, love

6968 likes

#15

“Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: inspirational

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#16

“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: advice-for-daily-living, live-in-the-moment

769 likes

#17

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

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#18

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#19

“Be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, In that case, you should always be a unicorn.”
― Elle Lothlorien, Alice in Wonderland

tags: contemporary-romance

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#20

“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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#21

“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

tags: zen

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#22

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

tags: compassion

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#23

“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

tags: mirror, relationships, self-revelation, soul, soulmates, understanding

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#24

“Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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#25

“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

tags: goals-in-life, limitations, mind, struggle

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#26

“Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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#27

“The attitude, “You can win if you want to badly enough,” means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too “tough” to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner’s ideals and dreams.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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#28

“There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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#29

“Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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#30

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
― Melody Beattie

tags: self-reflection

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