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    Elvis Presley
    “Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
    ― Elvis Presley
    tags: animals, hate
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses
    tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men
    578 likes

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #4
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “People hate as they love, unreasonably.”
    ― William M. Thackeray
    tags: hate, love
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    Wilhelm Stekel
    “The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
    ― Wilhelm Stekel, The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche
    tags: hate, indifference, love, misattributed-elie-wiesel
    189 likes

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    William Hazlitt
    “Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.”
    ― William Hazlitt, On The Pleasure of Hating
    tags: hate, love, satire
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  • #8
    Marcel Jouhandeau
    “To really know someone is to have
    love and hated him in turn.”
    ― Marcel Jouhandeau
    tags: hate, knowing, love
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    Orson Scott Card
    “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding
    2461 likes

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  • #10
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.”
    ― Madeline L'Engle
    tags: hate
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  • #11
    Orson Scott Card
    “When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
    tags: hate, understanding-others
    554 likes

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  • #12
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: hate
    343 likes

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  • #13
    Jennifer Salaiz
    “How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”
    ― Jennifer Salaiz
    tags: denial, hate, lies, love, sarcasm, truth
    262 likes

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  • #14
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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  • #15
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • #16
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
    tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind
    1552 likes

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    Daniel Goleman
    “Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”
    ― Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
    tags: compassion, empathy, selfishness, social-intelligence
    796 likes

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  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #19
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, kindness
    587 likes

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  • #20
    Jack Kerouac
    “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: compassion, kindness, serenity
    528 likes

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  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Give your weakness to one who helps.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: compassion, inspirational
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  • #22
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Compassion is a verb.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
    tags: compassion
    297 likes

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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
    5325 likes

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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
    5979 likes

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  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
    4242 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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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
    2326 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism
    2624 likes

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  • #30
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: choice, happiness
    1251 likes

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  • #31
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
    2143 likes



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