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    Horatius
    “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”
    ― Horace
    tags: act, action, begin, beginnings, bold, boldness, venture, wisdom, wise
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    Osho
    “Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.”
    ― Osho
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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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    Henri Bergson
    “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
    ― Henri Bergson
    tags: henry-bergson, philosophy
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    L. Ron Hubbard
    “Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
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    L. Ron Hubbard
    “Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.”
    ― Ron Hubbard
    tags: inspirational
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  • #7
    L. Ron Hubbard
    “Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
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  • #8
    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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    Horatius
    “Happy the man, and happy he alone,
    he who can call today his own:
    he who, secure within, can say,
    Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

    Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
    the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
    Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
    but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
    ― Horace
    tags: happiness, poetry, time
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  • #10
    Horatius
    “Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").”
    ― Horace
    tags: ability, completion
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  • #11
    Jean Baudrillard
    “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, America
    tags: life, television
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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  • #16
    Robert Anton Wilson
    “...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
    tags: metaphysics, philosophy
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    L. Ron Hubbard
    “To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
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    L. Ron Hubbard
    “Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision.

    Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
    tags: choice, decisions, self-determination
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  • #19
    L. Ron Hubbard
    “Anything you shun will have won.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
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  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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  • #21
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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  • #22
    Martin Buber
    “When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
    ― Martin Buber
    tags: relationship
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  • #23
    Martin Buber
    “All real living is meeting.”
    ― Martin Buber, I and Thou
    tags: relationship
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  • #24
    Martin Buber
    “Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other….
    Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
    ”
    ― Martin Buber, I and Thou
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  • #25
    “If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”
    ― Shantideva
    tags: buddha, problem, solve, stress, worry
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  • #26
    “Where would I find enough leather
    To cover the entire surface of the earth?
    But with leather soles beneath my feet,
    It’s as if the whole world has been covered.”
    ― Shantideva
    tags: buddhism
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  • #27
    “All the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing our self to be happy. All the happiness there is in this world arises from wishing others to be happy.”
    ― Shantideva
    67 likes



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