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 "Irreverence is the champion of liberty, and its only sure defense." -- Mark Twain 

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 "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain 

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"What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein ...

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 "Good and evil are the prejudices of God." -- Friedrich Nietzsche 

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 "Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability." -- Arthur Schopenhauer 

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  "He who leaves the game wins it." -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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 "It is impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone's beard." -- George Christoph Lichtenb...

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 "Honor thy error as hidden intention." -- Peter Schmidt & Brian Eno 

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 "Man's accidents are God's purposes." -- Friedrich von Schlegel 

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 "As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusion." -- Francois-Auguste-Rene de Chateaubriand 

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 "Everywhere I turn is luck." -- Louise Gluck 

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 "Joy is not the result of healing, it is the way of healing." -- Cassie Seal

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 "There is something in you that is not touched by the brush of time." -- Thomas Moore 

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 "Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs -- she had shit to do." -- meme on Instagram 

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 "We are eased when the life force weakens: a kind experience for those who value clarity." -- Stephen Mitchell 

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 "A moment can be both mundane and magical." -- Rebecca Pacheco

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"There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am." -- Sogyal Rinpoche 

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 "To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like." -- Joko Beck

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 "In my joy I forget to worry, and I don't even notice the approach of old age." -- Confucius

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"To ride the current of what is -- this is the primal virtue." -- Stephen Mitchell  

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 "Acknowledge the wave but stay with the ocean." -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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 "Our supper is plain, but we are very wonderful." -- Kenneth Patchen 

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"Awakening is that shift from an object-oriented existence  to a being-oriented existence." -- Shiv Sengupta 

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 "... I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of truth." -- Francis Bacon 

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 "If life does not seem to offer a game worth playing, then invent one." -- Robert DeRopp

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 "To be awake is everything." -- Gustav Meyrinck 

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 "Everyday you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle." -- Rita Mae Brown 

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"Grace is getting what you don't deserve, and mercy is not getting what you do deserve." -- Mary Gauthier  

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 "Suspect the sanctioned; respect the unauthorized." -- Melissa Holbrook Pierson 

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"Good thing thoughts aren't facts." -- anonymous psychotherapist 

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"We are not trying to change, we are learning to see." -- Cheri Huber  

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 "The most important thing in the world is to understand the sacred fact that you are alive." -- Jeff Warren 

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"The only problem is thinking there's a problem." -- Richard Sylvester 

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 ""Live small so you can live large." -- Stewart Brand

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 "The way in is the only way out." -- Roy Melvin

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 "Your only asset is the presence of awareness." -- Wu Hsin

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  "Your vibe attracts your tribe." -- Wisdom seen on a button

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"Thinking too much blocks life's flow."   -- Bert McCoy

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 "We have to trust that as we were cared for in the past, we will be cared for in the future." -- Donna Goddard

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 "It's not denial," Calvin tells Hobbes. "I'm just selective about the reality I accept." -- Bill Watterson

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  "Cooperate with the movement of life." -- Eckhart Tolle

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  "Style is knowing who you are, and what you want to say, and not giving a damn." -- Gore Vidal

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 "Anger is when your heart says, 'I feel passionate but powerless.'" -- The Minimalists

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"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."  -- Blaise ...

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"The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is themselves." -- Cara Stein

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"Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you." -- Ali ibn Abu Talib

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"If you walk hard enough you probably don't need any other God." -- Bruce Chatwin

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"Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being we are enough." -- Ram Dass

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"You can choose what youb do; you can't choose what you like to do." -- Gretchen Rubin

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" I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes." -- Billy Joel

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"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously." -- Samuel Butler

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"The secret of happiness lies in the taking of genuine interest in all the details of daily life." -- William Morris

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"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." -- Jodie Foster

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"A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." -- Hugh...

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"If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn." -- Charlie Parker

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"Human concepts, no matter how clearly conceived they are, almost always work against the whole" -- Christopher Alexander

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"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teachers." -- Pema Chodron

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"When you appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of things, you receive energy." -- James Redfield

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"Don't try and stand out from the crowd, avoid crowds altogether." -- Hugh MacLeod

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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." -- Emerson

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"When we understand, we are at the center of the circle, and there we sit while yes and no chase each other around the circumference....

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"You pray by working; you pray that you can make work that has a certain amount of authenticity." -- Robert Graham

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"I think that every breath is a prayer." -- Harry Dean Stanton

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"Is is much easier to distinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it." -- La Rochefoucauld

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"Every good deed helps to kindle this feeling of joy within us." -- Tolstoy

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"Everything is honored but nothing matters." -- Eckhart Tolle

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"The monks seek to reach their goal of enlightenment not through learning but through unlearning all preconceived notions of life and r...

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"Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." -- Frank Zappa

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It's as clear as the Devil to anyone who pays attention, the Mother of All Evil is speculation. " -- Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas...

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"Now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interp...

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"Observe the direct connection between practicing trust and the serendipitous events that follow." -- Alan Cohen

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"When you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try and reconcile yourself with the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." -- Henry David Thoreau

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"We talked a lot of small talk, but it was small talk with heart in it. " -- Stuart Brent

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"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful." -- Nina Grigoreva

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"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of them...

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"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity." -- Sigmund Freud

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"You are the teacher you've been waiting for. " -- Byron Katie

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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." -- Albert Gyorgi

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"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open." -- Rabindranath Tagore

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"To miss the joy is to miss all." -- William James

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"If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things." -- Dostoyevsky

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"Nothing down here below is profane for those who know how to see." -- Teilhard de Chardin

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"The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves." -- Horace Mann

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"Nothing has value except for the hunger one has for it." -- Camille Corot

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"Often one gets a reputation for mental stability simply because one doesn't have enough courage to make a fool of oneself." -...

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" a clue ... great truth can be found in small places, and small places can be found anywhere." -- W. Gregory Stewart

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"Sooner or later, no matter how satisfying your personal life is, you long for something more, something deeper, something that fills y...

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"It's better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than half way up one you don't." -- "Dawn" (a cha...

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." -- Oscar Wilde

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"Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink the thirstier we become." -- Schopenhauer

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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." -- John Barrymore

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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." -- Eric Hoffer

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"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished garden." -- Montaigne

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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. " -- Gustav Flaubert

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"Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new." -- Epictetus

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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it doe enlarge the future." -- Paul Boege

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"Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find peace." -- Ramana Maharshi

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"The great hope of society is individual character." -- William Ellery Channing

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"My compassion is not for the individual, but for that beingness which has trapped itself into identifying with individuals. " -- ...

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"I have no special talents, I m only passionately curious." -- Einstein

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"The simple truth is nothing external will make you happy." -- Stephen M. Pollan

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"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had." -- Margaret Mead

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"We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong." -- Spike Milligan

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"Nothing is virtuous if it is not spontaneous." -- Marilyn Wilhelm

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"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abe Lincoln

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"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." -- Sebastien Chamfort

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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Life, we learn to late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour." -- Stephen Leacock

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"The best way is to understand yourself, then you will understand everything." -- Suzuki Roshi

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"The greatest wealth is poverty of desires." -- Seneca

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"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance. " -- John Petit-Senn

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"In a world full of noise, we need to quiet ourselves to hear God's voice." -- Paul Borthwick

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"If you are feeling helpless, help someone." -- Aung San Suu Kyi

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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." -- Joseph Campbell

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"Wen I tend to the small things in a conscious way, the big things have a tendency to take care of themselves." -- Alexandra Stodd...

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"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make." -- Sara Ben Breathnach

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." -- Oscar Wilde

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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it is worthless." -- Thomas Edison

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"God lurks in the gaps." -- Jorge Luis Borges

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"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it well enough that no one could find fault." -- John Henry Cardinal Newman

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"I may not believe in what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire

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"Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent not an object." -- Hermann Hesse

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"I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least." -- Walt Whitman

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"Disciples can usually be counted upon to wreck the teachings of a master." -- J.C. Cooper

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"All creation emerges from darkness." -- Michael Meade

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"Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticizing others." -- Thomas Jefferson

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"We must be one of those who do good unconsciously." -- Marcus Aurelius

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"I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgo...

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"We are encouraged to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that don't last on people we ...

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"Gaining control of our attention -- the ability to put it where we want it, and keep it there for a sustained period of time -- is a p...

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"The knowledge of our errors is the beginning of our salvation." -- Epicurus

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"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean." -- David Sedaris

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"All spiritual life begins with the shock of impermanence." -- David Guy

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"When you really pay attention everything is your teacher." -- Ezra Bayda

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"Education should be the process of helping everyone discover his uniqueness." -- Leo Buscaglia

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"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." -- Adelle D...

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"I just went ahead doing what I liked to do." -- Linus Pauling

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"Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain

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"Be careful going to search for adventure -- it's ridiculously easy to find. " -- William Least Heat Moon

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"This is the very perfection of man, to find but his own imperfection." -- St. Augustine

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"All creation emerges from darkness." -- Michael Meade

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"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." -- Jonathan Kozol

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"Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -- Mary Oliver

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"We make our lives by what we love." -- John Cage

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"Creativity is seeing something that doesn't already exist. " -- Michael Shea

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"To be a friend is to step into the stream of another's life." -- Todd May

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"Frankly, I get a little bored -- and annoyed and suspicious -- when someone is sharing too much awesome." -- Colleen Wainwright

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"Computers are like Old Testament gods -- lots of rules and no mercy." -- Joseph Campbell

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"You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want." -- Nina Simone

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"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. " -- Robert Heinlein

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"We make a contribution to the world just by being ourselves in every moment." -- Shakti Gawain

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"All we need to make us really happy is something to be excited about." -- Charles Kingsley

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"When one says 'God' without truly practicing virtue, 'God' is nothing but a word." -- Plotinus

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"Religion is a defense against a religious experience." -- Carl Jung

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"Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness." -- John Cage

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"Very little is needed to make a happy life." -- Marcus Aurelius

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"I often say that if I had a prayer, it would be this: God spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen." --...

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"Following God's way is not so difficult as it is different." -- A Course in Miracles

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"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." -- John Adams

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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." -- Gloria Steinem

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"You can learn to hold your own happiness lightly by remembering that you are its source and that there is an infinite supply." --...

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"In truth, the best way to experience long-term happiness is to experience perpetual short-term happiness." -- Ernie J. Zelinski

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"Give up trying to be recognized and others will recognize it." -- Michael LaFargue

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"You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not." ...

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"One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with him." -- Goethe

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"Those folks who suffer most are just those who try hardest to make themselves into what they are not." -- David Reynolds

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"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." -- Ingrid Bergman

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"Being unable to abolish love, the Church has decided , at least, to disinfect it and has invented marriage. " -- Charles Baudelai...

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"I wish my house to be a college, open as the air to all whom I spiritually belong, and who belong to me. " -- Emerson

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"It's the experience of God that matters, not just the belief in God." -- Marianne Williamson

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"All religions pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance." -- V.V. Rozanov

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"There is more to life than beer alone, but beer makes those other things even better." -- Stephen Morris

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"When nations grow Old, The Arts grow Cold And Commerce settles on every tree." -- William Blake

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"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

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"Discipline is the art of feeling awe. " -- Michael Ventura

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"If you want to be happy, be." -- Thoreau

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"Every product of man is spliced with error." -- Paul Reps

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"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." -- Carl Jung

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"Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!" -- Walt Whitman

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"There is only one problem ever; your uninvestigated story in the moment." -- Byron Katie

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"The key to heaven is an open mind here on Earth." -- Mark Twain

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"Life is a succession of moments; to live each one is to succeed." -- Corita Kent

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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul; with all one's goodness and righteousness." -- Albert Einstein

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"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -- Bob Marley

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"Because I know myself very well, it is difficult to say who I am." -- Taiso Eka

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"Hitting the mark is the result of 99 failures." -- Dogen

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"Stretched and stressed in the pursuit of our worldly interests, we have no idea of the immense relief we would feel if we set aside ou...

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"The man 'who has his being in Christ' is one who lives by grace rather than law." -- Walter Starcke

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"The sage's indifference corresponds to a complete transformation of his relation to the world." -- Pierre Hadot

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"We must see the Spirit as our own self." -- Plotinus

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"Do not try to make things happen the way you want, but want what happens to happen the way it happens, and you will be happy." --...

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"If I tell you something, you will stick to it, and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself." -- Suzuki Roshi

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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction." -- Richard Dawkins

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"There is a genuine payoff in pulling ourselves closer to reality." -- David Reynolds

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"What is created through mental noise is a conceptual sense of self." -- Eckhart Tolle

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"Having overcome the obstacles to the comprehension of life as it really is, we manifest spontaneous, unmotivated action completely app...

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"Wherever the great dilemma exists is where the growth is, too." -- Anne Lamott

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"... lately I realized that what I call 'understanding' is basically just fantasizing." -- David Sedaris

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"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success." -- Thoreau

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"If you're not looking for social 'profit,' but for what is of genuine worth and brings real satisfaction, pay attention to...

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"What help is it to me that the Father gives birth to his Son unless I too give birth to him." -- Meister Eckhart

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"It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the things we have to do that makes life blessed." -- Goethe

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"Our business is to wake up." -- Aldous Huxley

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"Letting go does not mean not having." -- Cheri Huber

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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to happiness." -- Bertrand Russell

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"If our nature is permitted to guide our life, we grow healthy, fruitful and happy." -- Abraham Maslow

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"If your desires do not accord with your spirit, sacrifice them, and you'll come to the end of your journey." -- Attar

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"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays." -- Kierkegaard

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"... wisdom alone can suffice when knowledge and faith aren't enough." -- T.V. Smith

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"Happiness is a present attitude not a future condition." -- Hugh Prather

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"Romance is not the secret of happiness, harmony is." -- Garrison Keillor

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"The average man does not want to be free, he simply wants to be safe." -- H.L. Mencken

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"There can be no greater task than to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination." -- Noam Chomsky

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"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. " -- Virginia Woolf

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"I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are but does not lave us where it found us." -- Anne L...

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"Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited." -- Duke Ellington

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"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." -- Bertrand Russell

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"Give me a woman who truly loves beer, and I will conquer the world." -- Kaiser Wilhelm

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"When you offer no resistance to life, life begins to work for you." -- Eckhart Tolle

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"To sit and look to sit and listen  then to move interests us." -- Paul Reps

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"If you're looking for real enjoyment of the world, the most important thing is to preserve a healthy state of mind, capable of sub...

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"Between God and me there is no 'between.'" -- Meister Eckhart

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"I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursu...

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"As long as you're concerned about improving yourself, you'll always have a self to improve." -- Cheri Huber

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"A few small, powerful actions are worth a hundred hours of diddling about." -- Stuart Wilde

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"Don't think: Look!" -- Wittgenstein

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"You don't dance to get to the other side of the floor." -- Alan Watts

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"The best way to know God is to love many things." -- Vincent Van Gogh

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"The returning student had recently come out of a difficult divorce, and because her pain was significant, she wrongly insisted that he...

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"When I begin to sit with the dawn in solitude, I begin to really live." -- Gloria Vanderbilt

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"There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is itself freedom." -- Chogyam Trungpa

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"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on the earth is not a hardship but a pastime -- if we li...

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"There's nothing wrong with the world; what's wrong is our way of looking at it." -- Henry Miller

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"One who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever." -- Gandhi

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"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes transformation." -- Krishnamurti

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"A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it." -- Goethe

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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." -- George Bernard Shaw

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"Knowing who in fact one is, being conscious of the universal and the impersonal life that lives itself through each of us, that's ...

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"The simple ability to pay attention to the world as we find it may be at the heart of a soulful life worth living." -- David Whyt...

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"It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life." -- Lynn Andrews

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"Love is the every only God." -- e.e. cummings

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"Human beings are not on earth to manufacture consume goods for one another but to share being; to celebrate being; to reverence being;...

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"The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition." -- William Van Horne

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"Joy is independent of our circumstances." -- Greg Anderson

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"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything....

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"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." -- Aart van der Leeuw

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"I don't want to be saved, I want to be spent." -- Fritz Perls