“You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themself into.”
– Unknown
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Author: SS
My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
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Thrive – Maya Angelou
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.”
– Maya Angelou
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Success – Edward Everett Hale
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
– Edward Everett Hale
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Knowing – Rumi
“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
– Rumi
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Happiness – George Orwell
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
– George Orwell
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Live it properly – Marcus Aurelius
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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Friends – Euripides
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides
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Truth – Miyamoto Musashi
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie”.
– Miyamoto Musashi
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Consequence – Amanda Keller
“The Dildo of consequence is rarely lubed.”
– Amanda Keller
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Life is a dance – Alan Watts
“[Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”
– Alan Watts
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Honesty – Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Vices / Virtues – Erich Fromm
“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
– Erich Fromm
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What you see – Henry David Thoreau
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Excellence – Aristotle
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle
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Trapped – Rilke
”We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a new life we never wanted; can find that we are trapped, as in a dream, and die there, without ever waking up.”
– Rilke