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#1

“There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.”
― Rumer Godden

tags: rumer-godden

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#2

“I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.”
― Rumer Godden

tags: misquoted

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#3

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

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#4

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

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#5

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: humor, inspirational, laughter

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#6

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

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#7

“At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arguing, controversy, dislike, opinions, truth

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#8

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

tags: democracy, dissent, heroes, honesty, integrity, truth, truth-telling, virtue

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#9

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: activism, complicity, dissent, protest, truth-telling

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#10

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
― Spencer Johnson

tags: honesty, integrity, moral-courage, truth-telling

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#11

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

tags: courage, honesty, self-disclosure, truth-telling

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#12

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#13

“Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate pleased, the mind is intrigued by the triumph of ingenuity over scarcity - by the making of slight materials into a considerable matter. A man can do worse than to be poor. He can miss altogether the sight of the greatness of small things.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

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#14

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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#15

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: aging, feminism, radicals, women

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#16

“If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.”
― Laura Davenport

tags: humor, idiots, sky

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#17

“I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”
― Leo Szilard

tags: democracy, equality, fairness, genius, idiots, principles, reason, scientist, voting

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#18

“Elle était jolie par juxtaposition.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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#19

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: advice, depression, friendship, life, self-help

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#20

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: food, wine

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#21

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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