“Be the flame, not the moth.”
– Giacomo Casanova
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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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Who am I – Ming Di Liu
“Who am I”, you ask?
I am made from all the people I’ve encountered and all the things I have experienced.
Inside, I hold the laughter of my friends, the arguments with my parents, the chattering of young children, the warmth of kind strangers.
Inside, there are stitches from cracked hearts, bitter words from heated arguments, music that gets me through and emotions I cannot convey.
I am made from all these people and moments.
That is who I am.
– Ming Di Liu
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Today ― Dalai Lama XIV
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
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Trust – Frank Crane
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.”
– Frank Crane
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True love – Alex Grey
“True love is when two people’s pathologies complement one another’s.”
– Alex Grey
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The realist – William Arthur Ward
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
– William Arthur Ward
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I’m bored – Louis C.K.
You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless. The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say “I’m bored.”
– Louis C.K.
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Impossible – Muhammad Ali
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali
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Fear & regret – Unknown
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
– Unknown
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The great teacher – William Arthur Ward
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
– William Arthur Ward
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Wise are they – William Arthur Ward
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
– William Arthur Ward
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A good friend – Unknown
“A good friend can see you through a failure, but a great friend can see you through a success.”
– Unknown
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Champions – Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
– Muhammad Ali
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Love is – Victor Hugo
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
– Victor Hugo
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Forgiveness – Lily Tomlin
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past”
– Lily Tomlin