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#1

“This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: caring, dancing, devil, forgiving, healing, helping, hugging, inspirational, laughing, learning, life, loving, loving-choices, motivational, sharing, smiling, wondering

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#2

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

tags: memory, touch

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#3

“Focus your efforts on adding value rather than on promoting your achievements.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

tags: achievement-and-attitude, achievement-quote, achievements, achievements-and-attitude, add-value, focus-your-energy, reputation-management

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#4

“There's being wanted... And then there's being valued - two different things that, unfortunately, don't always occur together.”
― Nitya Prakash

tags: love, valued, wanted

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#5

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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#6

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: creativity, genius, poem-in-your-pocket-day

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#7

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: be-yourself, beauty, body-image, comfortable, happiness, imperfection, inspirational, life, rare, success, women

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#8

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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#9

“Success stood in some people’s way of moving from being good to being great.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: failure, greatness, self-development, self-help, self-satisfaction, self-satisfied, smug, smugness, success, talent

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#10

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: appreciation, contentment, dissatisfaction, life, perception, positivity, thankfulness, thanksgiving

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#11

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: ego, fame, openness, patience, receptivity

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#12

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adage, always, aphorism, ask, calm, circumstance, everything, flow, forgive, give-in, happen, harmony, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kind, kindness, kojouri, let-go, maxim, mind, mindful, mindfulness, moment, nothing, peace, present, quote, rights, say, serene, serenity, silence, silent, simple-quotes, speak, surrender, talk, think, think-before-you-act, thought, tranquility, truth, unity, zen

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#13

“It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through the complex beauty of such a perfect structure.

It's also possible to travel the whole globe and learn nothing.”
― Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems

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#14

“I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the ﬁerce magic emerging here. I am witness to ﬂexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.”
― Joy Harjo, Secrets from the Center of the World (Volume 17)

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#15

“Bless the poets, the workers for justice,
the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache,
the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh
meaning—We will all make it through,
despite politics and wars, despite failures
and misunderstandings. There is only love.”
― Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

tags: artists, creators, hope, justice, love, poetry, poets, visionaries

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#16

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: blindness, ego, fear, heart, life, love, vanity

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#17

“The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: ego, warsan-shire

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#18

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

tags: beauty, clouds, grass, idleness, inspirational, nature, rest, science, sky, summer, time, trees, water

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