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Stoic Teacher
12 Feb, 18:45
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12 Feb, 12:03
If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Stoic Teacher
12 Feb, 12:02
If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Stoic Teacher
12 Feb, 10:08
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Remember, this moment is your arena for growth. The past offers lessons, the future offers hope. Seize this day to embody your highest principles.
Remember, this moment is your arena for growth. The past offers lessons, the future offers hope. Seize this day to embody your highest principles.
Stoic Teacher
11 Feb, 20:37
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
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11 Feb, 18:45
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11 Feb, 12:03
If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars.
Stoic Teacher
11 Feb, 12:02
If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars.
Stoic Teacher
11 Feb, 10:08
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
Acknowledge that your life happens in this instant. Regrets are past, anxieties future. Center yourself in the present and act with intention and integrity.
Acknowledge that your life happens in this instant. Regrets are past, anxieties future. Center yourself in the present and act with intention and integrity.
Stoic Teacher
10 Feb, 20:38
"Choose not to be harmed-and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed -and you haven't been."
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10 Feb, 18:45
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10 Feb, 12:02
Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did l overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?
Stoic Teacher
10 Feb, 10:08
Monday, February 10th, 2025
Be mindful that now is your opportunity for impact. You can't change history or predict destiny. Make your mark today through just and reasoned conduct.
Be mindful that now is your opportunity for impact. You can't change history or predict destiny. Make your mark today through just and reasoned conduct.
Stoic Teacher
09 Feb, 18:45
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09 Feb, 18:15
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
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08 Feb, 18:45
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08 Feb, 18:15
IF YOU WISH TO IMPROVE, BE CONTENT TO APPEAR CLUELESS OR STUPID. ~ Epictetus ✒️
Stoic Teacher
08 Feb, 10:15
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Socrates ✒️
Stoic Teacher
08 Feb, 10:08
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
Center yourself in the present, for it is your true domain. Yesterday's gone, tomorrow's not guaranteed. Live this day fully, aligned with your deepest values.
Center yourself in the present, for it is your true domain. Yesterday's gone, tomorrow's not guaranteed. Live this day fully, aligned with your deepest values.
Stoic Teacher
07 Feb, 18:45
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07 Feb, 18:15
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. ~ Saint Augustine ✒️
Stoic Teacher
07 Feb, 12:02
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Stoic Teacher
07 Feb, 10:16
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less. ~ Zeno ✒️
Stoic Teacher
07 Feb, 10:08
Friday, February 7th, 2025
Understand that your choices in this moment shape your reality. The past informs, the future beckons, but only now can you act. Choose wisely and ethically.
Understand that your choices in this moment shape your reality. The past informs, the future beckons, but only now can you act. Choose wisely and ethically.
Stoic Teacher
06 Feb, 18:45
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06 Feb, 18:15
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty. ~ Amit Ray ✒️
Stoic Teacher
06 Feb, 12:02
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary—you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary but interest is continuous.
Stoic Teacher
06 Feb, 10:08
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
Recognize that this instant is your field of influence. Memories can't be changed, predictions may fail. Focus on virtuous action in the present moment.
Recognize that this instant is your field of influence. Memories can't be changed, predictions may fail. Focus on virtuous action in the present moment.
Stoic Teacher
05 Feb, 18:45
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05 Feb, 18:14
No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have. ~ Seneca ✒️
Stoic Teacher
05 Feb, 10:08
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
Be aware that your life unfolds in the now. The past is a teacher, the future a student. Live this day with purpose, embodying the wisdom you've gained.
Be aware that your life unfolds in the now. The past is a teacher, the future a student. Live this day with purpose, embodying the wisdom you've gained.
Stoic Teacher
04 Feb, 18:45
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04 Feb, 18:15
No art, however minor, demands Less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. ~ Leon Battista Alberti ✒️
Stoic Teacher
04 Feb, 12:02
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Stoic Teacher
04 Feb, 10:08
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Embrace the reality that this moment is all you truly have. Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow a possibility. Make this day meaningful through principled living.
Embrace the reality that this moment is all you truly have. Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow a possibility. Make this day meaningful through principled living.
Stoic Teacher
03 Feb, 18:45
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03 Feb, 18:16
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. ~ Seneca ✒️
Stoic Teacher
02 Feb, 18:45
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Stoic Teacher
02 Feb, 12:02
Do not be moral. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Stoic Teacher
02 Feb, 10:15
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ✒️
Stoic Teacher
02 Feb, 10:08
Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
Understand that now is your time for transformation. You can't relive the past or skip to the future. Evolve your character through mindful, virtuous choices today.
Understand that now is your time for transformation. You can't relive the past or skip to the future. Evolve your character through mindful, virtuous choices today.
Stoic Teacher
01 Feb, 18:45
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01 Feb, 18:15
I will do nothing because of public opinion, but everything because of conscience. ~ Seneca ✒️
Stoic Teacher
01 Feb, 12:02
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
Stoic Teacher
01 Feb, 10:15
We are members of one great body, planted by nature. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. ~ Seneca ✒️
Stoic Teacher
01 Feb, 08:20
Saturday, February 1st, 2025
Remember, this instant is your opportunity for excellence. The past is unchangeable, the future unpredictable. Strive for your best in each present moment.
Remember, this instant is your opportunity for excellence. The past is unchangeable, the future unpredictable. Strive for your best in each present moment.
Stoic Teacher
31 Jan, 18:45
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31 Jan, 18:15
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius ✒️
Stoic Teacher
31 Jan, 12:02
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses It.
Stoic Teacher
31 Jan, 08:20
Friday, January 31st, 2025
Be conscious that your power lies in the now. Regret can't change the past, worry can't control the future. Act with wisdom and courage in this moment.
Be conscious that your power lies in the now. Regret can't change the past, worry can't control the future. Act with wisdom and courage in this moment.
Stoic Teacher
30 Jan, 18:45
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30 Jan, 12:02
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Stoic Teacher
30 Jan, 10:15
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. ~ Seneca ✒️
Stoic Teacher
30 Jan, 08:20
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Recognize that the present is where life happens. Memories are static, expectations fluid. Engage fully with this day, guided by reason and ethical conviction.
Recognize that the present is where life happens. Memories are static, expectations fluid. Engage fully with this day, guided by reason and ethical conviction.
Stoic Teacher
18 Jan, 18:45
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18 Jan, 18:15
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ~ Leonardo da Vinci ✒️
Stoic Teacher
18 Jan, 10:15
My father used to say: don't raise your voice. Improve your argument. ~ Desmond Tutu ✒️
Stoic Teacher
18 Jan, 08:20
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
I will practice empathy and understanding in my interactions with others.
I will practice empathy and understanding in my interactions with others.
Stoic Teacher
17 Jan, 18:45
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17 Jan, 18:15
Nothing delights the mind as much as loving and loyal friendship. ~ Seneca ✒️
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17 Jan, 12:02
When a person cant find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Stoic Teacher
17 Jan, 10:15
My city and state are Rome, as Antoninus. But as a human being? The world. ~ Marcus Aurelius ✒️
Stoic Teacher
17 Jan, 08:20
Friday, January 17th, 2025
Today, I commit to being a lifelong learner, open to new ideas and perspectives.
Today, I commit to being a lifelong learner, open to new ideas and perspectives.
Stoic Teacher
16 Jan, 18:45
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16 Jan, 10:14
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. ~ Epicurus ✒️
Stoic Teacher
16 Jan, 08:20
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
I approach obstacles as opportunities to develop resilience and problem-solving skills.
I approach obstacles as opportunities to develop resilience and problem-solving skills.
Stoic Teacher
15 Jan, 18:45
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Stoic Teacher
15 Jan, 12:02
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
Stoic Teacher
15 Jan, 08:20
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
I will cultivate inner peace through acceptance of what is beyond my control.
I will cultivate inner peace through acceptance of what is beyond my control.
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14 Jan, 18:45
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09 Jan, 08:20
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
I will practice moderation in my desires and actions.
I will practice moderation in my desires and actions.
Stoic Teacher
08 Jan, 18:45
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08 Jan, 10:15
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw ✒️
Stoic Teacher
08 Jan, 08:20
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
Today, I embrace the opportunity to lead by example through my conduct.
Today, I embrace the opportunity to lead by example through my conduct.
Stoic Teacher
07 Jan, 18:45
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07 Jan, 08:20
Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
I approach each day as a fresh opportunity to live virtuously.
I approach each day as a fresh opportunity to live virtuously.
Stoic Teacher
06 Jan, 19:21
“Stop blaming yourself for the mistakes you made in the past.
You didn't know back then what you know now, you only made choices based on the little knowledge you had. Those mistakes were also necessary for you to learn from and open your eyes for things you weren't aware of and become wiser.”
You didn't know back then what you know now, you only made choices based on the little knowledge you had. Those mistakes were also necessary for you to learn from and open your eyes for things you weren't aware of and become wiser.”
Stoic Teacher
06 Jan, 18:45
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06 Jan, 10:15
If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. ~ Marcus Aurelius ✒️
Stoic Teacher
06 Jan, 08:20
Monday, January 6th, 2025
I will cultivate wisdom through reflection on my experiences.
I will cultivate wisdom through reflection on my experiences.
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05 Jan, 18:45
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05 Jan, 18:20
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle ✒️
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05 Jan, 09:13
Sunday, January 5th, 2025
Today, I choose to focus on what truly matters, letting go of trivial concerns.
Today, I choose to focus on what truly matters, letting go of trivial concerns.
Stoic Teacher
05 Jan, 08:56
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable. ~ Fannie Flagg, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! ✒️
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05 Jan, 06:56
The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is he who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without our Host. ~ C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves ✒️
Stoic Teacher
05 Jan, 04:56
Do you really believe in destiny?" "How can I not believe in destiny, when there is no difference between my memories and my dreams at night? There's no difference between their reality. And if I dream something first, I remember it later when I am actually walking in the place or looking at the person I first dreamed of. Days later. Or years later. Destiny~ she walks with me. ~ C. JoyBell C. ✒️
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05 Jan, 02:56
I hear my silence talked of in every lane ~ The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain. ✒️
Stoic Teacher
05 Jan, 00:56
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ~ Honoré de Balzac ✒️
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04 Jan, 22:56
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. ~ Karl Lagerfeld ✒️
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04 Jan, 20:56
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. ~ George Eliot, Middlemarch ✒️
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04 Jan, 18:56
After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to it. Many say that love will set you free, but I disagree. Love is a cage, a very painful one; its gilded bars made with yearning, heartache, and unfulfilled dreams. And the moment I realized that love wasn’t necessary to one’s survival I became free. No one would have the power to hurt me again. ~ Mia Asher, Easy Virtue ✒️
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04 Jan, 18:45
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04 Jan, 16:56
A good leader leads with compassion and love, not fear and blood. A country that harms its people because they are not happy with the leader - is not a country that belongs to the people, but to the leader. ~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem ✒️
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04 Jan, 12:56
When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday. ~ Stephen McCranie ✒️
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04 Jan, 11:42
“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”
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04 Jan, 10:56
Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges. ~ Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion ✒️
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04 Jan, 08:56
We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future. ~ Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides ✒️
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04 Jan, 04:56
Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong. ~ David Cook ✒️
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04 Jan, 02:56
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey. ~ Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart ✒️
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04 Jan, 00:56
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth. ~ Lily Tomlin ✒️
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03 Jan, 20:56
Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate. ~ Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love ✒️
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03 Jan, 18:56
Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. ~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem ✒️
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03 Jan, 18:45
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28 Dec, 22:56
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. ~ Anatole France ✒️
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28 Dec, 20:56
If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ~ Carl von Clausewitz, On War: Volume 1 ✒️
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28 Dec, 18:56
What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance? ~ Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch ✒️
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28 Dec, 18:45
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28 Dec, 16:56
It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, The Isle of the Lost ✒️
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28 Dec, 14:56
A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart. ~ Anthony Liccione ✒️
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28 Dec, 12:56
Let us dedicate this new era to mothers around the world, and also to the mother of all mothers -- Mother Earth. It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world closer together, and not destroy them to divide us further apart. We can pave new roads towards peace simply by understanding other cultures. This can be achieved through traveling, learning other languages, and interacting with others from outside our borders. Only then will one truly discover how we are more alike than different. Never allow language or cultural traditions to come between brothers and sisters. The same way one brother may not like his sister's choice of fashion or hairstyle, he will never hate her for her personal style or music preference. If you judge a man, judge only his heart. And if you should do so, make sure you use the truth in your conscience when weighing one's character. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good. ~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem ✒️
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28 Dec, 10:56
While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun? ~ Melody Carlson, Just Another Girl ✒️
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28 Dec, 08:56
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ✒️
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28 Dec, 06:56
Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed. ~ F. Paul Wilson, Healer ✒️
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28 Dec, 04:56
They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it. ~ Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious ✒️
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28 Dec, 02:56
Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth. ~ Christy Leigh Stewart ✒️
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28 Dec, 00:56
God is not interested in your art but, your heart. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha ✒️
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27 Dec, 22:56
Love is the sister to Truth, but they differ in two ways. You must go to Truth to find her. She will never come looking for you. However, you are never to go looking for her sister Love. Love will find you in your own divine timing, when you are ready for her. So don't look, she will come. She always does. ~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem ✒️
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27 Dec, 20:56
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad ~ William Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Mecca ✒️
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27 Dec, 18:56
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear. ~ Harlan Ellison ✒️
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27 Dec, 18:45
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27 Dec, 14:56
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. ~ David Foster Wallace ✒️
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25 Nov, 08:56
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. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men. ~ Baruch Spinoza, The Letters ✒️
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25 Nov, 06:56
I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. ~ Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X ✒️
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25 Nov, 04:56
All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real. ~ Carrie Vaughn, Kitty's Big Trouble ✒️
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25 Nov, 02:56
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ~ Jef Mallett ✒️
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25 Nov, 00:56
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit. ~ Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy ✒️
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24 Nov, 20:56
You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this. ~ Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen ✒️
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24 Nov, 18:56
The worst thing in life is having parents that always stand against you and never with you. They discourage you, instill fear in you, hold you back, push you down and never encourage you to fly forward. When I have kids, they'll already be born with propellers with added wings. Even if one tells me they want to go learn how to ride lions in Africa, if their heart is driving that desire, I'd say "DO IT".If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live. I'd rather my kid die with a wild fire in his/her heart than with a malfunctioning or drained out fuse. Always allow your kids to keep humming with dreams and ideas that fuel their passions. Never tell them something is impossible. If you have a really strong determined kid, they'll go out there killing themselves trying to do the unachievable just to prove you wrong. And if you have a weak kid, they'll give up on life and settle for bagging Cokes and potato chips at your local grocery store. ~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem ✒️
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24 Nov, 18:45
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24 Nov, 16:56
Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. ~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie ✒️
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24 Nov, 14:56
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ~ Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science ✒️
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24 Nov, 12:56
You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future. ~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay ✒️
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24 Nov, 10:56
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own. ~ Morrie Schwartz ✒️
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24 Nov, 08:56
The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ✒️
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24 Nov, 06:56
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?" Joseph Knect said to his Music Master "there is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend rather, you should long for perfection in yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived not taught ~ Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game ✒️
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24 Nov, 04:56
The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth. ~ Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun ✒️
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24 Nov, 02:56
Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death as warning, as an unavoidable matter of fact. Little Debbie's mom down the block might say, 'Honey, look both ways before crossing the street.' My mother's version: 'You don't look, you get smash flat like sand dab.' (Sand dabs were the cheap fish we bought live in the market, distinguished in my mind by their two eyes affixed on one side of their woebegone cartoon faces.)The warnings grew worse, depending on the danger at hand. Sex education, for example, consisted of the following advice: 'Don't ever let boy kiss you. You do, you can't stop. Then you have baby. You put baby in garbage can. Police find you, put you in jail, then you life over, better just kill youself. ~ Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life ✒️
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24 Nov, 00:56
Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich ✒️
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23 Nov, 22:56
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable. ~ Craig Ferguson ✒️
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23 Nov, 20:56
re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.[From the preface to Leaves Grass] ~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass ✒️
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21 Nov, 22:56
I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear ✒️
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21 Nov, 20:56
I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe. ~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem ✒️
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21 Nov, 18:56
To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge. ~ Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows ✒️
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21 Nov, 18:45
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21 Nov, 16:56
He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. ~ Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version ✒️
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21 Nov, 14:56
I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. ~ Harry Crews, Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews ✒️
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21 Nov, 10:56
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ~ Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 ✒️
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21 Nov, 08:56
Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth. ~ Mike Carey ✒️
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21 Nov, 06:56
What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever. ~ P.C. Cast, Awakened ✒️
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21 Nov, 04:56
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it. ~ Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism ✒️
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21 Nov, 02:56
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it. ~ Jane Kenyon ✒️
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21 Nov, 00:56
when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner. ~ Alex Flinn, Beastly ✒️
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20 Nov, 22:56
... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. ~ Lisa Genova, Still Alice ✒️
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20 Nov, 20:56
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. ~ Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version ✒️
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20 Nov, 18:56
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true. ~ Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression ✒️
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20 Nov, 18:45
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20 Nov, 16:56
I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie. ~ Ana Monnar ✒️
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20 Nov, 14:56
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. ~ Paula Danziger ✒️
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20 Nov, 12:56
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen. ~ Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ✒️
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20 Nov, 10:56
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles ✒️
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20 Nov, 08:56
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it. ~ Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev ✒️
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20 Nov, 06:56
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away ~ Sarah Addison Allen ✒️
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20 Nov, 04:56
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains. ~ Titus Lucretius Carus ✒️
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20 Nov, 02:56
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly ✒️
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20 Nov, 00:56
There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all. ~ V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light ✒️
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19 Nov, 22:56
I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything. ~ Dana Reinhardt, How to Build a House ✒️
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19 Nov, 20:56
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. ~ Josh Lanyon, Fair Game ✒️
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19 Nov, 18:56
You know the games I play And the words I say When I want my own way You know the lies I tell When you've gone through hell And I say I can't stay You know how hard it can be To keep believing in me When everything and everyone Becomes my enemy and when There's nothing more you can do I'm gonna blame it on you It's not the way I want to be I only hope that in the end you will see It's the Opheliac in me ~ Emilie Autumn ✒️
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19 Nov, 18:45
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19 Nov, 16:56
It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. ~ David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares ✒️
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19 Nov, 14:56
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. ~ Max Barry, Lexicon ✒️
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19 Nov, 12:56
Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness. ~ Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind ✒️
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19 Nov, 10:56
Belief means not wanting to know what is true. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ✒️
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19 Nov, 08:56
What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from? ~ Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer ✒️
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19 Nov, 06:56
The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image. ~ L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game ✒️
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19 Nov, 04:56
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. ~ Alan Keightley ✒️
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18 Nov, 18:56
Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper ✒️
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18 Nov, 18:45
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18 Nov, 16:56
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. ~ Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows ✒️
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18 Nov, 14:56
Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us. ~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol ✒️
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18 Nov, 12:56
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before… ~ Ned Vizzini ✒️
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18 Nov, 10:56
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. ~ W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk ✒️
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18 Nov, 08:56
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all. ~ Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever ✒️
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18 Nov, 06:56
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien ✒️
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18 Nov, 04:56
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted. ~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day ✒️
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18 Nov, 00:56
Submit to God and be at peace with him ~ in this way prosperity will come to you. ✒️
Stoic Teacher
17 Nov, 22:56
I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up. ~ Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep ✒️
Stoic Teacher
17 Nov, 20:56
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. ~ Robert Browning ✒️
Stoic Teacher
17 Nov, 18:56
Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. Thereis no getting around it—people are hard to live with. ~ Sōseki Natsume ✒️
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17 Nov, 18:45
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17 Nov, 16:56
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. ~ Ann Druyan ✒️
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17 Nov, 14:56
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever. ~ Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death ✒️
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17 Nov, 12:56
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. ~ S.N. Goenka ✒️
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17 Nov, 10:56
Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years.Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks 'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene,' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person.Why am I glad this is the case? To get to the point of the wrongness of Christianity, because I think the teachings of Christianity are immoral. The central one is the most immoral of all, and that is the one of vicarious redemption. You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same desert. I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I love you very much. I can volunteer to do that. I can't take your sins away, because I can't abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption. There very probably, in fact, is no redemption at all. It's just a part of wish-thinking, and I don't think wish-thinking is good for people either.It even manages to pollute the central question, the word I just employed, the most important word of all: the word love, by making love compulsory, by saying you MUST love. You must love your neighbour as yourself, something you can't actually do. You'll always fall short, so you can always be found guilty. By saying you must love someone who you also must fear. That's to say a supreme being, an eternal father, someone of whom you must be afraid, but you must love him, too. If you fail in this duty, you're again a wretched sinner. This is not mentally or morally or intellectually healthy.And that brings me to the final objection - I'll condense it, Dr. Orlafsky - which is, this is a totalitarian system. If there was a God who could do these things and demand these things of us, and he was eternal and unchanging, we'd be living under a dictatorship from which there is no appeal, and one that can never change and one that knows our thoughts and can convict us of thought crime, and condemn us to eternal punishment for actions that we are condemned in advance to be taking. All this in the round, and I could say more, it's an excellent thing that we have absolutely no reason to believe any of it to be true. ~ Christopher Hitchens ✒️
Stoic Teacher
17 Nov, 08:56
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth. ~ Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer ✒️
Stoic Teacher
10 Nov, 08:56
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson ✒️
Stoic Teacher
10 Nov, 06:56
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. ~ Romain Rolland, Above the Battle ✒️
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10 Nov, 04:56
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it ~ Dwight L. Moody ✒️
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10 Nov, 02:56
If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life. ~ Shannon L. Alder ✒️
Stoic Teacher
10 Nov, 00:56
But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here. ~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care ✒️
Stoic Teacher
09 Nov, 22:56
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. ~ J. Michael Straczynski ✒️
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09 Nov, 20:56
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth. ~ A.C. Grayling, The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century ✒️
Stoic Teacher
09 Nov, 18:56
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN. ~ B.W. Powe, Towards a Canada of Light ✒️
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09 Nov, 18:45
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09 Nov, 16:56
Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling. ~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help ✒️
Stoic Teacher
09 Nov, 14:56
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. ~ Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals ✒️
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09 Nov, 12:56
Why is this so hard?” I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard. ~ Rachel Vincent, Shift ✒️
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09 Nov, 10:56
We are willing to believe anything other than the truth. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ✒️
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09 Nov, 08:56
Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”He winces. “We didn’t even get a first chance. ~ Colleen Hoover, Confess ✒️
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09 Nov, 06:56
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. ~ Ann Landers ✒️
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09 Nov, 04:56
Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCeline going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being humanVillon expelled from Paris for being a thiefFaulkner drunk in the gutters of his townthe impossibility of being humanBurroughs killing his wife with a gunMailer stabbing histhe impossibility of being humanMaupassant going mad in a rowboatDostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shotCrane off the back of a boat into the propellerthe impossibilitySylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potatoHarry Crosby leaping into that Black SunLorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troopsthe impossibilityArtaud sitting on a madhouse benchChatterton drinking rat poisonShakespeare a plagiaristBeethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafnessthe impossibility the impossibilityNietzsche gone totally madthe impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly ~ Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense ✒️
Stoic Teacher
09 Nov, 02:56
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage ~ Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower ✒️
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09 Nov, 00:56
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods. ~ Gautama Buddha ✒️
Stoic Teacher
08 Nov, 22:56
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ~ Mark Twain ✒️
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08 Nov, 20:56
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. ~ Gautama Buddha ✒️
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29 Oct, 04:56
I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer ✒️
Stoic Teacher
29 Oct, 02:56
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ~ Erica Jong ✒️
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29 Oct, 00:56
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. ~ Franz Kafka ✒️
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28 Oct, 22:56
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ~ Meister Eckhart ✒️
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28 Oct, 20:56
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. ~ Khaled Hosseini ✒️
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28 Oct, 18:56
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. ~ George Orwell ✒️
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28 Oct, 18:45
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28 Oct, 16:56
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre ✒️
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28 Oct, 14:56
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed ✒️
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28 Oct, 12:56
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's. ~ Gayle Forman, Where She Went ✒️
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28 Oct, 10:56
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. ~ Clive Barker ✒️
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28 Oct, 08:56
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ~ Rachel Maddow ✒️
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28 Oct, 04:56
I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't ~ Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower ✒️
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28 Oct, 02:56
In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him. ~ Kristin Cashore, Graceling ✒️
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28 Oct, 00:56
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. ~ Richard Dawkins ✒️
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27 Oct, 20:56
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ✒️
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27 Oct, 18:56
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah ✒️
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27 Oct, 18:45
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26 Oct, 15:56
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly ✒️
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26 Oct, 13:56
The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort ~ Katherine Dunn, Geek Love ✒️
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26 Oct, 09:56
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work. ~ David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest ✒️
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26 Oct, 07:56
To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above. ~ Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa ✒️
Stoic Teacher
26 Oct, 05:56
You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth, American Pastoral ✒️
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26 Oct, 03:56
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. ~ J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye ✒️
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26 Oct, 01:56
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. ~ Albert Einstein ✒️
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25 Oct, 23:56
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner ✒️
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25 Oct, 21:56
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet ✒️
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25 Oct, 19:56
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre ✒️
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25 Oct, 17:56
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. ~ Banksy ✒️
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25 Oct, 17:45
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25 Oct, 15:56
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ✒️
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25 Oct, 13:56
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ✒️
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25 Oct, 09:56
I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ~ Socrates ✒️
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25 Oct, 05:56
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. ~ Harold Pinter, Old Times ✒️
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25 Oct, 03:56
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. ~ Carl Sagan ✒️
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