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    J. Krishnamurti
    “What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: disappointment, life, mistakes
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    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
    ― Leo Buscaglia
    tags: compassion, empathy, inspirational, listening
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    Sarah Dessen
    “This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: listening
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    Brené Brown
    “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
    ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
    tags: empathy, listening, shame, speaking
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  • #7
    “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”
    ― Ralph G. Nichols
    tags: listening, understanding
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
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    John Ciardi
    “I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.”
    ― John Ciardi, This Strangest Everything
    tags: life, tired
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
    tags: change
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    Aldous Huxley
    “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
    tags: experience
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: absolution, brooding, guilt, morality, remorse, repentance, wallowing, wrongdoing
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Every man's memory is his private literature.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: literature, memory
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    Aldous Huxley
    “...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: fate, love, people
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: inner-strength, self-confidence, self-contentment
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  • #24
    Epictetus
    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: anxiety, mankind
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    Epictetus
    “Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “There is a wilderness we walk alone
    However well-companioned”
    ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
    tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude
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    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
    ― Stephen Vincent Benét
    tags: ponder
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  • #28
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
    2155 likes



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