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    Howard Thurman
    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    ― Howard Thurman
    tags: inspirational
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: ironic, sad
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    Seneca
    “It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
    tags: life, mortality, squandering, wastefulness
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: destiny, fate, fortune, learning-process, meaning, value
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
    ― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , The Leopard
    tags: change
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
    ― Friedrich Neitzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    C.G. Jung
    “Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Joseph Joubert
    “Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”
    ― Joseph Joubert
    tags: opinions, stubbornness, stupidity
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
    ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    tags: truth
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    Walter Mosley
    “I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.”
    ― Walter Mosely
    tags: books, readers, reading, salvation, soul
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  • #18
    “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
    ― Andy Bernard
    tags: good-old-days, leaving-home
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    James Patterson
    “You have to respect your enemy. Never, ever underestimate them. The second you do, they’ll squash you. Be smart about them. Respect their abilities, even if they don’t respect yours.”
    ― James Patterson, School's Out—Forever
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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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  • #21
    Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
    “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
    ― Alexis Carrel
    tags: betterment, change, human, self-formation, self-improvement
    284 likes



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