September 2023 Collected Quotes
September 2023 Collected Quotes
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"Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing."
- William Shakespeare
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
- Stewart Brand
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“Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.”
— Hippocrates
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"We simply cannot know joy without embracing vulnerability — and the way to do that is to focus on gratitude, not fear."
- Brené Brown
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“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
― Anaïs Nin
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“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
— Virginia Woolf
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"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."
- Anne Lamott
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"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
- Stephen Covey
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"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
- Kahlil Gibran
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"A good way to overcome stress is to help others out of theirs."
- Dada J. P. Vaswani
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"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."
- Mary Oliver
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"Sitting is an art. The art of resting first. It’s very important that we learn how to rest."
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
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"You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man."
- Freddie Mercury
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"The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child is singing still."
- Mary Oliver
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"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
- Mary Oliver
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"You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life."
- Mary Oliver
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"If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it."
- Mary Oliver
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"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
- Mary Oliver
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"When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement."
- Mary Oliver
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“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
— Maya Angelou
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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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“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
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“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
— Edith Wharton
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“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”
— Voltaire
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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
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“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
— José Saramago
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
— Franz Kafka
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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
— Nelson Mandela
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“The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either good or evil.”
— Hannah Arendt
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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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“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”
— André Gide
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Resist much, obey little.”
— Walt Whitman
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“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
— Albert Camus
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“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
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"Those truths which we know are very few in comparison with those which we do not know.”
– Galileo Galilei
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“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”
— Khaled Hosseini
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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
— Bertrand Russell
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"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul."
Mary Renault, novelist
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“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”
— Albert Camus
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
— T. S. Eliot
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“Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.”
— Hermann Hesse
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“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
Seneca
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"When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."
Robert M. Pirsig
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"Self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you."
- Gloria Gaynor
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"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom."
- Queen Elizabeth II
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“Don’t wait for it…Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you.”
— Anaïs Nin
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
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“All great and precious things are lonely.”
— John Steinbeck
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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself ... that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
- Marie Curie
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"Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity."
- Sydney J. Harris
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"Art is the one place we all turn to for solace"
- Carrie Mae Weems
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“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.”
- Coleman Cox
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"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
- BB King
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"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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"I believe in the impossible because no one else does."
- Florence Griffith Joyner
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"No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
- William Faulkner
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“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
— Charles Bukowski
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“People are not good to each other. perhaps if they were, our deaths would not be so sad.”
— Charles Bukowski
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"What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
- Albert Camus
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"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."
- Althea Gibson
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"I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields."
- Queen Latifah
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“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
— Voltaire
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“You will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
- H. Jackson Brown Jr
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“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
— Carl Sagan
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“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.”
— Albert Camus
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“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
- John Woode
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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought."
– Marcus Aurelius
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“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
— Albert Camus
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“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
— G. K. Chesterton
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“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
— René Descartes
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"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
Muhammad Ali
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"We are beings towards death."
Heidegger
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
— James Baldwin
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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
– John A. Shedd
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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful."
– Oksana Zabuzhko
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“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
— Charles Addams
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“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”
— Margaret Atwood
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"Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."
— Neil Gaiman
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"Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund."
— Anthony Bourdain
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"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."
– Brené Brown
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"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
— Lao Tzu
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"Sell your own myth, but never buy it."
— St. Vincent
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"Great people do things before they’re ready."
— Amy Poehler
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"Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong."
— William Wheeler
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"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
— Maya Angelou
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain
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“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie
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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
— Sigmund Freud
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
— Albert Camus
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“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
— Jack Kerouac
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"Find ecstasy in life; the mere joy of living is joy enough."
— Emily Dickinson
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“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
— Erich Fromm
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“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
— Franz Kafka
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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
— Charles Bukowski
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
— Robert Frost
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
— George Orwell
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"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable."
– Christopher Reeve
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“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
— Henry Miller
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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
— James Baldwin
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
– Albert Einstein
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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
— Maya Angelou
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“Even if you have the privilege of walking through this world unfazed, it’s more important than ever to stand with and for and up for things, to be vocal.”
- Tyler Childers
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"There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring."
– Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
— Viktor Frankl
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“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
— Sylvia Plath
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"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Truman Capote
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