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    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: silence, understand
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    Wole Soyinka
    “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
    ― Wole Soyinka
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
    tags: self
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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    John Green
    “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: inspirational
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    Richard Flanagan
    “A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    tags: books
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot
    learn, feel, change, grow or love.
    Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom.
    Only the person who risks is truly free.”
    ― Leo Buscaglia
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  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37987 likes

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  • #13
    Sri Chinmoy
    “Peace begins
    When expectation ends.”
    ― Sri Chinmoy, Perfection and transcendence
    tags: expectation, expectations, peace
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  • #14
    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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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
    7580 likes

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  • #17
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
    3733 likes

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  • #18
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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  • #19
    Lise Meitner
    “Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.”
    ― Lise Meitner
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  • #20
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Richard Flanagan
    “Humans are only one of many things, and all these things long to live, and the highest form of living is freedom: a man to be a man, a cloud to be a cloud, bamboo to be bamboo.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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  • #25
    On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and
    “On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.”
    ― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
    tags: aberjhani, antiracism, assumptions, charter-for-compassion, compassion, compassion-action-network, compassion-heals-lives, cultural-differences, cultural-diversity, desperation, fear, global-community, humanity, militarization, military-conflict, nonviolence, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, opportunity-quotes, overcoming-fear, panic, peacism, polarization, police-reform, police-shootings, political-philosophy, prejudice, slpendid-literarium, stop-killing-each-other, terrorism, terrorists, trust, uncertainty, waging-peace, war, xenophobia
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    Marlon James
    “But sometimes when you’re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.”
    ― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
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  • #27
    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    ― Nicholson Baker
    tags: books, inventions
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  • #28
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
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  • #29
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance, self-esteem
    2708 likes



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