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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: earth, poems, sky, trees
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    Francis Bacon
    “Wonder is the seed of knowledge”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: science
    235 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
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    Adam Smith
    “Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”
    ― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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    Ovid
    “If you would be loved, be lovable”
    ― Ovid
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    Robert F. Kennedy
    “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
    ― Robert F. Kennedy
    tags: make-a-difference, purpose-of-life
    343 likes

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    Francis Bacon
    “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
    2911 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius
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    Aristotle
    “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: happiness
    1663 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: teaching, understanding
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, existentialism, fame, history, life, purpose, stocism, time
    296 likes

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    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
    tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen
    679 likes

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    Seneca
    “Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
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    René Descartes
    “Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: latin, life-and-living, mottos, thinking
    756 likes

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    Seneca
    “To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: philosophy
    112 likes

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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”
    ― Friedrich August von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
    tags: coercion, equality, exclusivity, liberty, marginalized-people, oppression, privilege
    147 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: life, living
    546 likes

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    Ludwig von Mises
    “All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
    ― Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
    tags: individualism
    148 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    René Descartes
    “To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: inspirational-quotes
    132 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
    5311 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Confine yourself to the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: inspirational
    187 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    193 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: steadfastness
    173 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
    217 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: life, play, work
    1542 likes



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