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a curated list of all the best quotes about life and how to live it!
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
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“Everything! Now! Boldness and clarity open the door to mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical intensity and stimulation, which generate the sensation of feeling fully alive.” – Shaun Roundy
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“The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“When Newton’s Apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.” – Ellen Bass
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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot
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“Belonging is the absence of the fear that you don’t.” – Shaun Roundy
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“Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.” – Brené Brown
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“Self-awareness is your only permanent get-out-of-hell-free card.” – Shaun Roundy
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“If you’re pretty, you’re pretty; but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it’s just ‘congratulations about your face.’” – John Mayer
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“Which is more important,” asked Big Panda, “the journey or the destination?” “The company,” said Tiny Dragon – James Norbury
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“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.” – Walt Whitman
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Happiness = Reality / Expectations
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“Stop waiting for the perfect moment…it’s already here.” – Shaun Roundy
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“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.” – Billy Joel
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“You don’t have an identity without a memory.” – Michael Pollan
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“Our expectations are the filters for how we make judgements about anything.” – Michael Yapko
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“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” – F. Matthias Alexander
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“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” – African proverb
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“How you do anything is how you do everything.” – Martha Beck
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“Ignorance is bliss until all of a sudden…it isn’t.” – Shaun Roundy
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“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” – Jacob Marley (Charles Dickens)
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“Our consciousness is for transforming the future into the present.” – Jordan Peterson
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“The larger the gap between what you expect and what you want, the more distressed you feel.” – Jennice Vilhauer
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“I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.” – Osho
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“The only thing wrong with you is that you think there’s something wrong with you.” – Unknown
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“Taking care of myself doesn’t mean ‘me first.’ It means ‘me, too.'” – L.R. Knost
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“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa
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“I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.” – Charles Cooley
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“Life is arranged against us. We’re all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren’t we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we’ll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that’s all.” – Sue Monk Kidd
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“Humanity is the worst! And also the best.” – Shaun Roundy
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“Launching a rhetorical grenade might give me a little satisfaction and earn me a few attaboys on social media from those who share my views, but generosity and openness have a bigger chance of making the world better in the long run.” – Arthur C. Brooks
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“There is a life force, a vitality that exists within each of us that longs to be translated into action.” – Martha Graham
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“From now on, my life lived will be my life’s work. ” – Mari Andrew
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“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” – Desmond Tutu
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“I promise, if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.” – Tyler Kent White
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“The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about the bombs.” – C.S. Lewis
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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