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#1

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

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#2

“It takes a lot of courage to fight biases and oppressive regimes, but it takes even greater courage to admit ignorance and venture into the unknown. Secular education teaches us that if we don’t know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of acknowledging our ignorance and looking for new evidence. Even if we think we know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of doubting our opinions and checking ourselves again. Many people are afraid of the unknown, and want clear-cut answers for every question. Fear of the unknown can paralyse us more than any tyrant. People throughout history worried that unless we put all our faith in some set of absolute answers, human society will crumble. In fact, modern history has demonstrated that a society of courageous people willing to admit ignorance and raise difficult questions is usually not just more prosperous but also more peaceful than societies in which everyone must unquestioningly accept a single answer. People afraid of losing their truth tend to be more violent than people who are used to looking at the world from several different viewpoints. Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

tags: ignorance, questions

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#3

“Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one thing
Only this one time, what would you tell me?
Well maybe you could give me a suggestion
So I could know you, what would you tell me?
Maybe you could tell me what to ask you
Because then I'd know you, what would you tell me
Please tell me that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
And what are your intentions, will you try?
Impressions, you've made impressions
They're going nowhere
They're just going to wait here if you let them
Please don't let them
I want to know you
And if they're going to haunt me
Please collect them
Please just collect them
And now I'm begging
I'm begging you to ask me just one question
One simple question
Because then you'd know me
I'll tell you that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
At least for my own
What is a heart worth if it's just left all alone?
Leave it long enough and watch it turn into stone
Why must we always be untrue?”
― Jack Johnson, Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

tags: heart, love, music, questions

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#4

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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#5

“To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and arrogance prevent them from doing so. Therefore, they will always remain ignorant. Those on the right path to Truth are extremely heart-driven and childlike in their quest, always asking questions, always wanting to understand and know everything — and are not afraid to admit they don't know something. However, every truth seeker does need to breakdown their ego first to see Truth. If the mind is in the way, the heart won't see anything.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: arrogance, arrogant, ask-questions, asking-questions, asking-questions-quotes, brain, child, childlike, ego, egoism, egotism, fake, god, heart, ignorance, lies, media, mind, news, path, quest, question, questions-and-answers, reason, religion, road-to-truth, seeking, true, truth, truth-seeker, understand, understanding, untrue

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#6

“Well-crafted and open-ended questions typically begin with What, Why, When, Who, How, and Where, all of which can prompt the most delightful of conversations.”
― Susan C. Young, The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact

tags: asking-questions, best-keynote-speakers, best-motivational-speakers, communication-skills, customer-service-quotes, first-impressions-quotes, quotes-by-susan-c-young, relationship-quotes, speaker-susan-young, trust

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#7

“So, how can you move beyond awkward silence with virtual strangers to becoming new friends? By asking great questions! Once a few inquiring questions were placed, I would let them do all the talking.”
― Susan C. Young, The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact

tags: asking-questions, best-keynote-speakers, best-motivational-speakers, communication-skills, customer-service-quotes, first-impressions-quotes, quotes-by-susan-c-young, relationship-quotes, speaker-susan-young, trust

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#8

“If you do not ask questions, you will never attain acceptance ”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

tags: acceptance, life, questions

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#9

“One of the most powerful ways we can learn from others is to ask, ‘What do you think?’ and be open to the answer.”
― Bradley Staats

tags: answers, questions

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#10

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel

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#11

“Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Under in the Mere

tags: journey, quest, question

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#12

“The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: an-abundance-of-katherines, chameleon, colin-singleton, gutshot, john-green, life, lindsey-lee-wells, quotes, realistic-fiction

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#13

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: astronomy, challenges, comets, comfort-zone, courage, extraordinary, growing, illuminate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, learning, life-and-living, meteor-showers, meteors, outside-my-element, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-growth, self-worth, shooting-stars, the-universe

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#14

“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: character, class, common-sense, dignity, happiness, health, inner-peace, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, life, life-quotes, love, manners, money, morals, patience, respect, time, trust

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#15

“Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

tags: dignity, life-and-living

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#16

“Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: accomplish, achievement, care, conquering, dignity, handling, inspirational, motivational, prosper, soaring, success, wit

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#17

“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
― Octavia E. Butler

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom

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#18

“Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: conviction, dignity, genuine, honesty, integrity, private, public, secrecy, sincerity, test

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#19

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: compassion, empathy

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#20

“Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#21

“For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: lies, public, truth

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#22

“A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence. ”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#23

“He suddenly recalled the famous myth from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#24

“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#25

“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#26

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing

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#27

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: freedom, law, morality, rules

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#28

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

tags: authenticity, context, creative-process, creativity, imitation, inspiration, originality, postmodernism, rules, sense-of-wonder, sources, transformation

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#29

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: adversity, authenticity, being-yourself, boldness, breaking-the-rules, chances, dance, dancing, finding-yourself, fitting-in, getting-older, go-against-the-grain, happiness, journey-of-life, laughter, lessons, lessons-learned, life-lessons, living-life-on-your-own-terms, loving-yourself, non-conformity, overcoming-adversity, positive-thinking, road-less-traveled, rules, standing-out, taking-chances, the-single-woman, uniqueness

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