May 2012
42 posts
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to...
– Galileo Galilei
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I learned that strength of character and valor are not gendered qualities.
– Alfredo Mirande
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Forgive yourself for learning instead of knowing.
– Aaron Raz Link
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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
– Diogenes
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If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. But if you really...
– Don Marquis
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight...
– Dwight Eisenhower
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its...
– Dwight Eisenhower
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine...
– Mitch Albom
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s...
– Alain Badiou
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Old age isn’t a battle, it’s a massacre.
– Philip Roth
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We love because it is the only true adventure.
– Nikki Giovanni
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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his...
– Nelson Mandela
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the...
– Rumi
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I don’t believe in charity.
I believe in solidarity.
Charity is vertical, so...
– Eduardo Galeano
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
– Louisa May Alcott
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Live in the opening where
there is no door to hide behind.
– Rumi
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a...
– Malcolm X
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Don’t be afraid to go after
what you want to do
and what you want to be.
But...
– Lane Frost
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That is why it is so important to let certain things go.
To release them. To cut...
– Paulo Coelho
I am neither a fanatic nor a dreamer. I am a black man who loves peace, and...
– El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (الحاجّ مالك الشباز) | Malcolm X
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
– Rumi
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I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone...
– Anthony de Mello
The most natural thing in the world is complexity.
– Hank Green
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Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed...
– Dream Hampton
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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house,...
– Rumi
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not...
– Thomas Merton
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My life is lack,
misery, pain,
hell, boredom
So why live?
My life is tears...
– Dalila al-Zaituni, ‘My Life’ (Tunisia, 1982)
Translated from the French by Miriam Cooke
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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
– Louisa May Alcott
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My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented...
– Hermann Hesse, Demian
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We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we...
– Walter Anderson
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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...
– Edgar Allen Poe
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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and...
– Lewis B. Smedes
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
– Swedish Proverb
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,...
– Graham Greene
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...
– Oscar Wilde
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All of us are mad. If it weren’t for the fact every one of us is slightly...
– Ugo Betti
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I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger.
– African Proverb
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Be beautiful if you can, Wise if you want to… But be respected -that is...
– Anna Gould
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It’s like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down...
– C. JoyBell C.