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#1

“It is these uncontrollable circumstances that pop up like weeds in the human soul. The effects of inner conflict are comparable to the childhood dizziness of a spinning game. It's only when you step out of the game for a moment, you are able to gain control and clarity.”
― J. Carpenter

tags: philosophy, philosophy-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, writers-inspiration

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#2

“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
― Aesop

tags: independent-thought, individuality, morals, self-expression, values

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#3

“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: religious

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#4

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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#5

“If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: disrespect, relationships, respect, self-compassion, self-knowledge, self-love, self-understanding

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#6

“Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-hatred, self-loathing, self-love, self-respect

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#7

“There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend our time and money on trying to become these things. We put on the high heels, the suits, the makeup, the mask. Then, we feel more awkward than confident, so we drink away our anxieties. That doesn’t make us look any sexier – it just makes us stop caring about how we look.

Everyone is beautiful. Everyone is sexy. Everyone is strong. It’s lunacy. We’re all running around trying to become something that we already are.

You know what’s really sexy? A person who’s 100% comfortable with themselves. And you know what’s really funny? It is just as time consuming and difficult to learn to accept yourself as it is to pretend to be someone else. The only difference is – with self acceptance, one day, it’s not hard anymore. One day, you feel like your sexiest, strongest self just rolling out of bed in the morning.

You’re either going to spend the little time you have in your life on trying to know yourself or trying to hide yourself. The choice is yours. You can’t do both.

And you know what’s really amazing about choosing self-love? You’ll be setting an example for all the people around you and all the kids of the coming generation. You’ll be part of a revolution to take back the precious moments of our lives out of the hands of shame-inducing advertisers and back into the hands and hearts of real people like you, like me, like all of us.

I know you’ve dreamt about changing the world. So this is your chance. Learn to love yourself, accept yourself, and unleash your strongest, sexiest self. It’s in there. You just have to believe it.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: be-sexy, be-yourself, beauty, change-the-world, commercialism, love-yourself, self-acceptance, self-awareness, self-compassion, self-love, sexiness, strength, strong

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#8

“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: faith, inspiration, peace, perseverance, personal-growth, psychology, rebirth, resurrection, spirituality, starting-over, strength

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#9

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression

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#10

“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them."

[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”
― Michael Michalko

tags: creative-process, creativity, ideas, individuality, information, knowledge, paradox, persistence, spontaneity, stubbornness, uniqueness

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#11

“A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate a
taste for it.”
― Aaron Haspel

tags: cultivate, taste, willingness

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#12

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion, connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames

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#13

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

tags: mindfulness, miracles

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#14

“Lucky Charms are like the vampires of breakfast cereal. They're magical, they're delicious, they're a little bit dangerous and bad for you. They initially make you feel great, but then over time you realize that maybe your relationship with Lucky Charms is just a little bit unhealthy and you start to think, 'Maybe I don't want to be in a long-term relationship with a breakfast cereal that tastes delicious but damages my health.' But then the Lucky Charms gets all stalker on you and for some reason you kind of like that. It makes you feel special. So yeah, you spend your life with Lucky Charms. That's awesome. That's a great way to... get diabetes.”
― John Green

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#15

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: inspirational

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#16

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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#17

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape without scandal, there is no turning aside without self-betrayal. To invite a person to dinner is to place them under observation. Every dining-room is a temporary prison where politeness chains the guests to the laden board.”
― Maurice Renard, Hands of Orlac

tags: dining, dining-table, dinner-party, dinner-table

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#18

“Stop leaning into your career while leaning out of your life. Instead, it’s time to lean in a totally different way altogether.”
― Erin Hatzikostas, You Do You(ish): Unleash Your Authentic Superpowers to Get the Career You Deserve

tags: authentic, authenticity, career, career-development, lean-in

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#19

“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health - and create profitable diseases and dependences - by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving. In gardening, for instance, one works with the body to feed the body. The work, if it is knowledgeable, makes for excellent food. And it makes one hungry. The work thus makes eating both nourishing and joyful, not consumptive, and keeps the eater from getting fat and weak. This is health, wholeness, a source of delight. (pg.132, The Body and the Earth)”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

tags: connections, health, joy, work

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#20

“Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.”
― Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By

tags: connections, humanity, life, ties

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#21

“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year.”
― David Brooks

tags: accomplishments, affection, connections, consciousness, happiness, information, involvement, self-consciousness

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#22

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

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#23

“Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest?

"Exactly that," said Ferguson.”
― Paul de Kruif, A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum

tags: honesty, moral-inventory, self-examination, therapy

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#24

“Life is for service.”
― Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

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#25

“Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind”
― C. R. Strahan, Watercolor

tags: shamanism, shape-shifting, transformation

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#26

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
― Isaac Newton

tags: nature, philosophy, simplicity, wisdom

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#27

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication

1667 likes

#28

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

31214 likes

#29

“I have found that the people whom society has deemed to be the weakest are inevitably the strongest.”
― Michael Bihovsky

tags: chronic-illness, chronic-illness-quotes, chronic-illness-stigma, disability, disability-quotes, society, society-quotes, strength, strength-quotes, strength-through-adversity

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#30

“Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.”
― John Milton

tags: blessings, etiquette-and-attitude, gratitude, kindness, manners, thankfulness

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