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#1

“In my opinion, to assume a persons’ motivations, life experiences or self identity may, at best, demonstrate one’s ignorance and, at worst, display one’s hubris.”
― Tristan A. Star

tags: advice, assumptions, diversity, hubris, identity, ignorance, life-philosophy

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#2

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour

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#3

“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: childhood, punishment

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#4

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: dichotomy, fear, love, power, punishment

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#5

“A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.”
― B.F Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity

tags: avoidance, behavioral, learn, psychology, punishment, science

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#6

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#7

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: willful-ignorance

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#8

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: thinking, willful-ignorance

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#9

“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

tags: public-opinion, willful-ignorance, wizard-s-rules

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#10

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance

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#11

“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

tags: liber-librae, thelema, willful-ignorance

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#12

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

tags: society-s-increasing-stupidity, willful-ignorance

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#13

“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
― James A. Michener

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#14

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

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#15

“We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: brotherhood, color, difference, differences, equality, harmony, human, humanism, humanity, individuality, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, living, race, respect, sisterhood, society, unity

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#16

“Looking through the veil, cosmos is a beautiful thought, patterns repeating fractally into micro and macro cosmos, other lives resonating in ours and sometimes they feel like simbolic presentation of our subconscious reality in this existence.

It is very often to find a "past"* life experience fractally mirroring in this life. When you're really one with the heart of the cosmos, it's all beautiful colorful patterns repeating, variating themselves through eternity.

Any kind of trauma is embedded deeply into the soul's experience, and it's a pattern that will keep on repeating until it is brought into consciousness and transformed through conscious will to change it. * There is no time, only variations of reality”
― Petra Poje - Keeper of The Eye

tags: consciousness, soul, time, transformation, universe

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#17

“Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

tags: clouds-of-negativity, colors-of-peace, compassion, enlightenment, enlightenment-and-attitude, enlightenment-holiness, enlightenment-ideals, enlightenment-principles, enlightenment-quotes, enlightenment-religion, happiness, human-qualities, kindness, peace, positive-attitude, positive-outlook, spirituality, transformation

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#18

“Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.”
― John Mark Green

tags: beautiful, brokenness, change, growth, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, positive, positive-quotes, transformation, wisdom

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#19

“The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color!”
― Jodi Livon

tags: affirmations, jodi-livon, love, psychic-medium, quotes, quotes-about-intuition, soul, spiritual-quotes, spirituality, transcendence, transformation, universe

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#20

“When we say "transformation," it means that nothing of the old has remained. Something totally new has flowered within you. Now you look at a rose plant that is full of thorns. Springtime came and rose flowers burst out — it is a transformation. The thorns are still there — there are more thorns than flowers — but we do not call it a thorn plant. We call it a rose plant because of that single rose. Everyone's attention goes more towards that single rose than a hundred thorns that are on the plant, isn't it? So all the thorns in you, maybe you cannot remove them right now, but if one rose flower blossoms, everyone is willing to overlook those things.”
― Jaggi Vasudev, Life and Death in One Breath

tags: change, revolution, rose, thorns, transformation

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#21

“The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.”
― Euphoria Godsent

tags: born-this-way, confidence-and-attitude, confidence-quotes, diva, domestic-violence, empowering-attitude, empowering-quotes, expressing-yourself, free-speech, human-rights, inspirational-quotes, lgbt-quotes, lgbt-rights, self-awareness, self-esteem-high-self-image, self-esteem-quotes, self-love, self-love-quotes, self-worth, spiritual-awakening, spiritual-awareness, transformation

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#22

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animal, bad, black, cosmic, cosmos, darkness, darks, dualities, dust, earth, evil, fire, galaxy, good, light, lights, man, mimic, moon, ocean, planets, polarities, salt, sea, solar-system, space, sun, suzy-kassem, swimming, universal, universe, white, wind, woman

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#23

“Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: riddles, wind

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#24

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: betray, betrayal, bullies, bully, bullying, burn, cheat, cheater, corrupt, cynical, cynics, dark, darkness, hateful, hostile, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, liar, light, lying, malevolent, malicious, negative, negative-people, negativity, pessimistic, pessimists, spiteful, toxic, toxic-people, toxicity, vengeful, vicious, vindictive

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#25

“Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live”
― Cassandra Clare, The Iron Trial

tags: bind, burn, cal, devour, elements, fire, flow, humor, magic, power, rise

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#26

“How can you rise, if you have not burned”
― Hiba Fatima Ahmad

tags: burn, phoenix, rise, rise-above

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#27

“That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

tags: escape, jennifer-l-armentrout, onyx

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#28

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assertive, assertiveness, bravery, choices, confidence, courage, coward, daughter-of-god, dignity, disrespect, enemies, fearful, integrity, low-self-esteem, retreat, scores, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, silence, women

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#29

“It’s not the claws of the cat that bothers me. Rather, it’s the fact that I gave him a reason to use them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: cat, claws, consequences, foolish, impulsive, stupid, thoughtful, wisdom, wise

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#30

“Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

tags: 1967, anvil, forge, hard-knock-life, prydain, taran, testing, worthiness

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