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#1

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

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#2

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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#3

“Love is a risk worth taking.
I'd waited an eternity for this.
I'd have waited all over again if I had to.
I was meant to be kiss this boy, designed to be held by him.
All the careful postures I held melted away, and I pulled him closer.
We were stars.
We were music.
We were time.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: thisbookomygod

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#4

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: book, books, kahlen, kiera-cass, reading, siren, the-siren

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#5

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”
― Stephen King, The Body

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#6

“Don't wait for the storm to pass, learn to dance in the rain”
― Paige Toon, The Longest Holiday

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#7

“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free.”
― Shannon Alder

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#8

“Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#9

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love

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#10

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: blaming, blaming-others, brokenness, disorders, hatred, high-standards, hypocrisy, ignoring, illness, issues, judgement, judging-others, learning, narcissistic, no-conscience, no-filter, paranoia, poor-character, problems, realization, respecting-others, self-absorbed, self-abuse, self-realization, trust, trustworthy

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#11

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: alone, quiet, silence

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#12

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing

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#13

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

tags: alone, honesty, yates

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#14

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
― Charlie Tremendous Jones

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#15

“Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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