“Actions speak louder than words. We can apologize over and over, but if our actions don’t change, the words become meaningless.”
– Unknown
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Character – Abraham Lincoln
”Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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The worst walls – Ursula K. Le Guin
“The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there – you build yourself.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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The opinions of others – Marcus Aurelius
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Congratulations on your ability to create drama out of absolutely nothing.”
– Very Grumpy Cat
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Hypothesis – Milan Kundera
“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”
– Milan Kundera
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Travel – Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
– Mark Twain
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
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Senseless odyssey – Hunter S. Thompson
“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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Beliefs you hold about yourself – Unknown
“Question the beliefs you hold about yourself, and the beliefs you feel others hold about you. Reject those beliefs, even if just for a little while, and see if it’s something you should let go of for good.”
– Unknown
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Enjoy less – Socrates
“The secret to happiness, you see, is not in gaining more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
– Socrates
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True to life – Max Frisch
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
– Max Frisch
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not here; I did not die.
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
– written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye.