::: October 2023 ~ Collected Quotes :::
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"I write to find out what I think."
— Joan Didion
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
— Haruki Murakami
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"The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create."
- Katy Perry
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
— Marvin Gaye
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"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
— Henry Miller
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"Neither love nor terror makes you blind: indifference makes one blind."
- James Baldwin
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"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want, you already are."
— Rumi
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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
— Sylvia Plath
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"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."
- Wayne Dyer
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"Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware."
— The Dalai Lama
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"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others."
- Denis Diderot
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe — the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
— Immanuel Kant
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"Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth."
— Baruch Spinoza
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"Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience."
— Georges-Louis Leclerc
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"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer; it eats upon the host … So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."
— Maya Angelou
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"Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath."
- Eckhart Tolle
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"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
— Suzy Kassem
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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"Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do."
— Ellen Hopkins
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
— Aldous Huxley
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“The joy that isn't shared, I've heard, dies young.”
— Anne Sexton
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“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
— Steve Jobs
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"You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation."
— Bette Davis
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"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
— George H. Lorimer
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"We're not born creative or destructive. Each one of us has the ability to create or destroy, to leave the world better than we found it, or worse."
- Yo-Yo Ma
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"Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home.
- Gwendolyn Brooks
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"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."
- Malala Yousafzai
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"Comedy is finding the things you hate about people and the world and having fun with that […] Turning that into joy."
— Bob Odenkirk
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"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously."
— Oscar Wilde
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Proverb
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"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
— Orson Welles
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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde
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"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
— Leigh Hunt
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
— John Dewey
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"Live, and be happy, and make others so."
— Mary Shelley
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"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."
- Tom Petty
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
— Cicero
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"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
— Melody Beattie
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"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time."
— Dale Dauten
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"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."
— Karl Barth
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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."
— Henry David Thoreau
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"You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."
— Carrie Fisher
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"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
— Rosa Parks
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“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
— Haruki Murakami
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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
— Margaret Atwood
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“War is what happens when language fails.”
— Margaret Atwood
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"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we can know"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You become what you think about all day long."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires.
– A.O.C.
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"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
— Frida Kahlo
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“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Imagination is a very high sort of seeing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
— Maya Angelou
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
— Alan Watts
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“No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...”
— Alan Watts
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"Knowledge is the antidote to fear."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
— Albert Camus
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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
— E. E. Cummings
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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka
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“If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
— Albert Camus
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
— Carl Jung
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"He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
— Charles Bukowski
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"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
— Albert Camus
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"None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up."
- Hillary Clinton
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“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
— Aldous Huxley
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“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
— Aldous Huxley
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
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“All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”
— Aldous Huxley
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
- Prez T.R.
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"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
— Bill Gates
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"Man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces."
— Rachel Carson
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov
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"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself."
— Galileo Galilei
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"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."
— John Green
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"The best thing I ever did for my mental health was I stopped apologizing for it."
— Hannah Blum
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"Be careful about how you hide yourself from people who care. Your hiding could set up a life-or-death situation whereby you are in need and there is no one left to help."
— Rheeda Walker
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"Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them."
— Zero Dean
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"Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone."
— Lisa Olivera
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"Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character."
— Rick Warren
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
— Indira Gandhi
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“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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"I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
— Virginia Woolf
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“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
— Alain de Botton
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo
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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
— Sylvia Plath
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“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
— Frida Kahlo
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
— André Gide
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal — or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."
— Elizabeth Peters
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"Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time."
— Seanan McGuire
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"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don’t buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."
— William S. Burroughs
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“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
— Anne Frank
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“A mask tells us more than a face.”
— Oscar Wilde
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"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
— Haruki Murakami
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"The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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