“Think carefully before accepting someone’s criticism if you wouldn’t accept their advice.”
– Unknown
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Give a charlatan power – Carl Sagan
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
– Carl Sagan
“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top.
At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey.
It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Strength – Erich Fromm
“Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am “stronger” than he is. But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
It is the expression of inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking.”
― Erich Fromm
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Neutrality – Dante Alighieri
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin
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The tree remembers – Zimbabwean proverb
“The axe forgets what the tree remembers.”
– Zimbabwean proverb (Shona tribe)
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Happiness – Brianna Wiest
“Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face. The pursuit of it is why we do basically everything that we do, and yet, none of that effort is necessary: it’s the simplest choice of changing our state of mind.”
― Brianna Wiest
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Mothers – Oscar Wilde
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde
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Attention – James Clear
“Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life.”
– James Clear
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Lightly – Aldous Huxley
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
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So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
– c
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Falling – Unknown
“We’ve been falling so long, we’ve had to convince ourselves that we’re flying.”
– Unknown
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Someone we don’t fool – Robert Brault
“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
― Robert Brault
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No obligation – Margaret Mitchell
“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect”
– Margaret Mitchell
“Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself.”
― Brianna Wiest