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#1

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

5668 likes

#2

“When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

280 likes

#3

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

tags: humor

22514 likes

#4

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13389 likes

#5

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

12568 likes

#6

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

5740 likes

#7

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

1794 likes

#8

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, independent-thought

1608 likes

#9

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: bad, liar

1459 likes

#10

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom

3576 likes

#11

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, woman

522 likes

#12

“Speech is silver but silence is golden.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: philosophy

38 likes

#13

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

2911 likes

#14

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84939 likes

#15

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

5095 likes

#16

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

3868 likes

#17

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

2029 likes

#18

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

1754 likes

#19

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde

1456 likes

#20

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas

1422 likes

#21

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-work

1248 likes

#22

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: war

1246 likes

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