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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
    tags: life, privacy, public-image, secrecy
    893 likes

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    Sophocles
    “I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”
    ― Sophocles, Electra
    tags: electra, greek-tragedy, madness, sophocles
    64 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Die at the right time”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109055 likes

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    Joan Didion
    “I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.”
    ― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
    92 likes

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    Kathleen Taylor
    “Human beings have been trying to change each others' minds since they first discovered they had them.”
    ― Kathleen Taylor, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
    tags: brainwash, brainwashing, coercion, cult, influence, mind-control, persuasion
    2 likes

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    Eric Berne
    “The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours”
    ― Eric Berne, Games People Play
    59 likes

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    Sophocles
    “Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    tags: interference, meddlers
    51 likes

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  • #10
    Sophocles
    “Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
    ― Sophocles, Electra
    tags: death
    113 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
    9499 likes

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    Joan Didion
    “I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
    ― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
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    David Goggins
    “Know why you’re in the fight to stay in the fight!”
    ― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: romantic
    4086 likes

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    Henry Ford
    “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice”
    ― Henry Ford
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    16460 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18223 likes

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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: inspirational, motivational
    4733 likes

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    Henry Ford
    “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: education, lifelong-learning
    1069 likes

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    Hans Rosling
    “Remember: things can be bad, and getting better.”
    ― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    72 likes

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    Eric Berne
    “Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.”
    ― Eric Berne, Games People Play
    tags: developmental-psychology, human-development, parenting, parents, psychology, social-games, social-schema
    8 likes

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    Epicurus
    “Why should I fear death?
    If I am, then death is not.
    If Death is, then I am not.
    Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
    Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
    Religious tyranny did domineer.
    At length the mighty one of Greece
    Began to assent the liberty of man.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: death, end, fear, greece, liberty, religious-tyranny
    341 likes

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    Joan Didion
    “Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing.”
    ― Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays
    tags: answers, joan-didion, nothing, play-it-as-it-lays, questions
    14 likes

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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
    5633 likes

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  • #25
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
    8503 likes

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    Ayn Rand
    “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights
    1681 likes

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    David Goggins
    “Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.”
    ― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
    85 likes

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    Jane Rule
    “The will bakes bread the nature chokes on. The nature turns the wheel the will breaks on.”
    ― Jane Rule, Desert of the Heart
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    Alfred Korzybski
    “The map is not the territory.”
    ― Alfred Korzybski
    tags: cybernetics, metaphysics, philosophy
    205 likes

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  • #30
    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: fight, happiness, learn
    3282 likes



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