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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: life
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16592 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93330 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
    13943 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
    10698 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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  • #10
    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
    2460 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
    2511 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
    2111 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom
    886 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: politics, religion, science-fiction
    810 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: stress
    570 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: duke-leto-atreides
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    Frank Herbert
    “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Marie Kondō
    “But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.”
    ― Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
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    Ross Edgley
    “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.”
    ― Ross Edgley, The Art of Resilience
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
    5631 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: brotherly-love, enemies, fighting, love, peace, trial, victory
    1347 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78169 likes

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  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37068 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
    34729 likes



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