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#1

“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 鈥榤erely relative,鈥� is asking you not to believe him. So don鈥檛.”
― Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

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#2

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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#3

“I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: life, life-lessons, life-quotes, motivation, motivational, nicole-lyons, passion, poetry-is-not-dead, poetry-quotes, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, strength, strong, strong-women, truth, unafraid

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#4

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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“In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the living room, is a mountain of midterm examinations with essays I must suffer through, feeling my stomach turn at their paucity of intelligence, their adolescent phraseology. And all that tripe, all those miles of hideous prose, had been would into an eternal skein in his head. And there it sat unraveling into his own writing until he wondered if he could stand the thought of living anymore. I have digested the worst, he thought. Is it any wonder that I exude it piecemeal? (鈥淢ad House鈥�)”
― Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 1

tags: bad-writing, writing

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“I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

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#7

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world鈥檚 deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

tags: inspirational

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#8

“The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ”
― Albert Ellis

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#9

“The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed鈥攕uch a probabilistic, uncertain world.”
― Albert Ellis

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#10

“Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.”
― Albert Ellis, The Art & Science of Rational Eating

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#11

“Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.”
― Albert Ellis, Rational Psychotherapy and Individual Psychology

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#12

“The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others鈥� happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life鈥攜es, the one life鈥攜ou鈥檒l probably ever have.”
― Albert Ellis, How To Stubbornly Refuse To Make Yourself Miserable About Anything 鈥� Yes, Anything!

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“For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds.”
― Albert Ellis, The Road to Tolerance: The Philosophy of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

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#14

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#15

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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#16

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

tags: funny, humanity, humor

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#17

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#18

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes

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#19

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness

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#20

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: humanity, individuality, love, mercy

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#21

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom

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#22

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: faith, humanity, ocean

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#23

“Mudita is based on the recognition of our interdependence, or Ubuntu. The Archbishop explains that in African villages, one would ask in greeting, 鈥淗ow are we?鈥� This understanding sees that someone else鈥檚 achievements or happiness is in a very real way our own.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

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#24

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.”
― Tao Te Ching

tags: appear, disappear, ready, student, tao-te-ching, teacher

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#25

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

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#26

“[43] lord i refuse to engage prayer as a weapon i wish it to be like a river between two shores for i seek neither punishment nor grace but rather new skin that can bear this world”
― Said, 99 Psalms

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