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#1

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude

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#2

“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”
― Walt Whitman

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#3

“It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: communication, disagreement, expression, expressions, humanity, humble, humility, ideas, judgement, judgmental, open-mind, open-mindedness, opinion, opinions, recognition, respect, talent, thought, thoughts, writing

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#4

“It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.

Ignorance is our deepest secret.

And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.

Here is a quick test:

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.

It will do both of you good.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: adapt, adaptability, assimilate, assimilation, beliefs, change, discovery, ignorance, ignorant, incorporating, introspection, learning, mutability, new, new-thought, open, open-mind, open-minded, open-mindedness, ponder, question, questioning, questions, re-evaluating, receptive, rethink, rethinking, secret, think, thinking, wise

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#5

“I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

tags: right-on

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#6

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: labels

1207 likes

#7

“I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.”
― Louise L. Hay

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#8

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
― Fred Rogers

tags: friends, friendship, love, peace

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#9

“Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, adapting, change, enhancing, evolving, improving, life, motivational, refining

130 likes

#10

“Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: condemnation, conditional-love, holy, love, secular, spirituality, true-love, unconditional, undeserving

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#11

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
― George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede

tags: leisure, meditation, solitude

349 likes

#12

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

tags: evil, violence

867 likes

#13

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence

852 likes

#14

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

5107 likes

#15

“The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.”
― David James Duncan, God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

tags: fundamentalists, mysticism, religion, religious-freedom, spirituality

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#16

“The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must.”
― David James Duncan, God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

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#17

“To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.”
― David James Duncan, God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

tags: beauty-in-nature, nature, religion, religious-freedom, spirituality

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#18

“You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Message Remix

tags: embellishment, empty-words, matthew, religion, religious

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#20

“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: god, religion

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#21

“As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

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#22

“When goodness is lost there is morality.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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#23

“You become what you think about all day long.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, obsession

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#24

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: ecology, inspirational-quotes, nature, trees

818 likes

#25

“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: spiritual

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#26

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: library-books

340 likes

#27

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: originality

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#28

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

33018 likes

#29

“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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#30

“...stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. ”
― Robert J. Hastings, Tinyburg Tales

tags: ice-cream, life

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