May 2012
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to...”
– Galileo Galilei
May 31st
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“I learned that strength of character and valor are not gendered qualities.”
– Alfredo Mirande
May 31st
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“Forgive yourself for learning instead of knowing.”
–  Aaron Raz Link
May 30th
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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
May 30th
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“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.”
– Diogenes
May 29th
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“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. But if you really...”
– Don Marquis
May 29th
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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight...”
– Dwight Eisenhower
May 28th
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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
May 28th
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“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine...”
– Mitch Albom
May 27th
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“The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s...”
– Alain Badiou
May 27th
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“Old age isn’t a battle, it’s a massacre.”
– Philip Roth
May 26th
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“We love because it is the only true adventure.”
– Nikki Giovanni
May 26th
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“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his...”
– Nelson Mandela
May 25th
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“Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the...”
– Rumi
May 25th
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
May 24th
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“I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so...”
– Eduardo Galeano
May 24th
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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
May 23rd
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“Live in the opening where there is no door to hide behind.”
– Rumi
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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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
May 22nd
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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
May 21st
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“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...”
– Paulo Coelho
May 21st
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“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
May 20th
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“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
– Rumi
May 17th
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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  
May 17th
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“The most natural thing in the world is complexity.”
– Hank Green
May 16th
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“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed...”
– Dream Hampton
May 15th
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“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house,...”
– Rumi
May 14th
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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not...”
– Thomas Merton
May 14th
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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
May 13th
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“Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.”
– Louisa May Alcott
May 13th
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“My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian  
May 13th
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“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we...”
– Walter Anderson
May 11th
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“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...”
– Edgar Allen Poe
May 9th
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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and...”
– Lewis B. Smedes
May 8th
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“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
– Swedish Proverb
May 7th
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,...”
– Graham Greene
May 7th
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde
May 5th
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“All of us are mad. If it weren’t for the fact every one of us is slightly...”
– Ugo Betti
May 5th
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“I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger.”
– African Proverb 
May 3rd
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“Be beautiful if you can, Wise if you want to… But be respected -that is...”
– Anna Gould
May 2nd
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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.
May 2nd
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