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    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
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    David Foster Wallace
    “...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    Casey Plett
    “Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or hours.”
    ― Casey Plett, Little Fish
    tags: cis, perception-of-others, trans, treatment-of-others
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    Confucius
    “When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: behavior, hatred, love
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  • #5
    Thomas Paine
    “Time makes more converts than reason.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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    “As time passed, it grew easier and easier to let go of what I had. The reason was simple: I had a lot. Like most people who go overseas to do development work, I did so expecting to find out what it's like to be poor. But awakening to my surroundings after a few months, I discovered that that's not what happens. Instead you learn what it's like to be rich, to be fabulously, incomprehensibly bloated with wealth. No one in Kalambayi could afford to share more than I.”
    ― Mike Tidwell, The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn
    tags: peace-corps, travel, western-ideals
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    George Carlin
    “Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: cynicism, disillusionment, idealism
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  • #9
    Sigmund Freud
    “Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: freud, valentinettti
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  • #10
    “No one learns significantly from conclusions.”
    ― Carl Rogers, Becoming a Person
    tags: acceptance, experience, humanistic-psychology, ideology
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  • #11
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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  • #12
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    Aeschylus
    “that we must suffer, suffer into truth.
    We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
    the pain of pain remembered comes again
    and we resist, but ripeness comes as well.
    From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench
    there comes a violent love.”
    ― Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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  • #14
    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
    tags: past, time
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  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    Niels Bohr
    “You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: falsehood, philosophy, truth
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    Walter Tevis
    “It is foolish to run risk of going mad for vanity's sake.”
    ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
    tags: diderot-s-letter, madness, paul-morphy, philidor, steinitz, vanity
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
    tags: faith, love, peace
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    John Bowlby
    “What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.”
    ― John Bowlby
    tags: abusive-parents, attachment, attachment-disorder, child-neglect, child-trauma
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    John Bowlby
    “The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved.”
    ― John Bowlby
    tags: anger, angre, conflict, humanity, hurt, love, oppression
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    Desmond Tutu
    “A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: belonging, community, oneness, togetherness, ubuntu
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    Erich Fromm
    “To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.”
    ― Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: anxiety, peace-of-mind
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: love
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  • #25
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Our own life has to be our message.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh , The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
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    David Foster Wallace
    “What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    Desmond Tutu
    “It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.”
    ― Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
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    Anna Freud
    “In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.”
    ― Anna Freud
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    Shūsaku Endō
    “Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”
    ― Shūsaku Endō, Silence
    239 likes



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