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#1

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: change

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#2

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

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#3

“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: duty-privilege

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#4

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

tags: actions, habits, values

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#5

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

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#6

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

tags: books, finding-your-way, libraries, library

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#7

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#8

“You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”
― Rumi

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#9

“Black is beautiful. Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.”
― Lewis H. Michaux

tags: 1973, blackpower-mixtape, harlem, writer

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#10

“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

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#11

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

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#12

“They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.”
― Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl

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#13

“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: black-and-white, childish, childishness, differences, different, god, grey, greyness, growing, growth, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, living, living-life, right-and-wrong, wrong-and-right

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#14

“The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.”
― Deb Baker, Murder Passes the Buck

tags: bodies, differences, embarassment, indifference, men, mentality, shame, women

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#15

“I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.”
― Janusz Korczak, The Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak

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#16

“It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying

tags: exile, haiti, refugees

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#17

“There is a difference between agreement and understanding: When discussing complex social and institutional dynamics such as racism, consider whether "I don't agree" may actually mean "I don't understand.”
― Robin DiAngelo, What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

tags: disagreement, misunderstanding, racism, rightness, whiteness

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#18

“Our parents taught us, quite matter-of-factly, that we needed to be twice as good as the next (white) kid, because that is what it would take to be considered almost equal.”
― Susan Rice, Tough Love

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#19

“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

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#20

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#21

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#22

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

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#23

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#24

“Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: diet, dieting, fasting, food, intermittent-fasting, life, obese, obesity, overeating, overweight

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#25

“We become fat by overeating, not by not exercising.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: exercise, exercising, fat, food, gym, obese, obesity, overeating, overweight, personal-trainer

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#26

“Eating breakfast breaks the fast. Skipping breakfast breaks the fat.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: break-a-fast, breakfast, dieting, excessive-fat, fasting, fat, intermittent-fasting, overweight, skip-breakfast, weight-loss

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#27

“She let herself go physically: That has to be said. She became--there is not a polite way of putting this--blowsy. She sagged; for all her good works, her body became the emblem and manifestation of her grief.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

tags: body, body-changes, grief, overweight, weight-gain

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#28

“You need to be careful about being overweight as a man, as excessive fat produces the female hormone estrogen.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

tags: careful, estrogen, excessive, fat, female, hormone, hormones, man, overweight, produces

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