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#1

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: control, force, hurt, loss, love, pain, practice, risk, saftey, security

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#2

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

tags: 1998

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#3

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: apathy, complacency, consumerism, control, learned-helplessness, resignation, the-powers-that-be

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#4

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: comfort, loneliness, solitude, strength

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#5

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

10866 likes

#6

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

5903 likes

#7

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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#8

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: forgetting, hate, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, living, strength

4711 likes

#9

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

tags: grief, grieving, hope, loss, love, pain, sadness, strength, tears

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#10

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: courage, inspirational, strength

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#11

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: abilities, capability, confidence, optimism, possibility, skills, strength

2498 likes

#12

“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

tags: masks

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#13

“The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

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#14

“I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

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#15

“Normal is a setting on a washing machine.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

tags: normal, setting, washing-machine

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#16

“Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those can be foreign, too, even when you think you're understanding each other.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

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#17

“Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

tags: control, strength

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#18

“You see, that’s what’s so odd, how everyone thinks they’re normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn’t that wonderful?”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

tags: normal, odd, wonderful

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#19

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth

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#20

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
― K.L. Toth

tags: confusion, identity, loss, mask, philosophy, sadness, self, sense-of-self, tragedy

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#21

“There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.”
― Steve Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: avatar, beauty, beauty-is-not-skin-deep, burka, burqa, hijab, mask, niqab, superficial-beauty, true-beauty

315 likes

#22

“A mask tells us more than a face.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: face, mask

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#23

“I am looking for the one I can’t fool.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, couple, date, dating, disguise, facade, fall-in-love, fool, foolish, games, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, look, looking, love, love-games, love-quotes, lover, mask, one, play, player, quotes, relationships, search, seek, seeking, soulmate, together, trick, trickster, true, truth, wild

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#24

“Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: comfort, crazy, family, friends, fun, mask, relationships, relatives, relaxation, self

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#25

“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: acceptance, alien, be-yourself, fake, front, hated, hermits, honesty, individuals, introvert, isolation, loneliness, loner, mask, naked, nude, odd, original, outcast, peculiar, populace, psychology, real, shunned, shy, society, solitude, strange, unique, vulnerable, weird

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#26

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, mask, self

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#27

“If we’re wrapping ourselves up to conceal any vulnerability, whatever happens to us has to go through all those extra layers. Sometimes love doesn’t even reach where we truly live.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

tags: facade, layers, mask, vulnerability

51 likes

#28

“If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: be-yourself-quotes, deceit-quotes, dishonesty, hypocrisy-quotes, hypocrite, hypocrites, liar-quote, lies-quotes, lying-to-ourselves, lying-to-yourself, mask

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#29

“A beautiful face can mask great evil...”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

tags: beautiful, evil, face, mask

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#30

“I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life

tags: depression, feelings, mask

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