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#1

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: character, forgiveness, grudge, grudges, holding-grudges, move-on, moving-on, owe, owed, peace, peace-of-mind, revenge, strength, strength-of-character, substance, substantial, unforgiving, vengeance

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#2

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

tags: anger, buddhism, freedom, happiness, peace

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#3

“Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.”
― Daisaku Ikeda

tags: buddhism, destiny, happiness, humanism, inspirational, karma, peace, self-reformation

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#4

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson

tags: forgiveness, healing, peace

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#5

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, liberation, love, marxism, peace, radicalism, socialism, theology

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#6

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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#7

“Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry.”
― Menelaos Stephanides, Gods and Men

tags: life, pain, regret, sorry

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#8

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

tags: carrie, remorse, sorrow, sorry, stephen-king

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#9

“True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather...Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. How you absorb them makes you what you are for good or ill. I think the only true and right way is to take our sorrows into us bravely and wholly, knowing they will hurt, and accepting that sometimes pain is unavoidable. It is when grief is suppressed or hidden that it does harm”
― Isobelle Carmody, The Red Queen

tags: emotional-pain, grief, honesty, resilience, sorry

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#10

“When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.”
― Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

tags: apology, forgive, forgiveness, freedom, saying-i-m-sorry, sorry, souls

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#11

“Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: apologize, apologizing, apology, i-love-you, i-m-sorry, love, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, sorry

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#12

“Admitting a mistake is not a weakness; on the contrary, it shows an openness of your heart. It takes guts to say sorry. Only a strong and well-balanced individual with clarity of mind can do so effortlessly. Taking responsibility for your actions requires and develops your self-control. You become your own person.”
― Vishwas Chavan, VishwaSutras: Universal Principles For Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences

tags: admitting-mistakes, guts, inspirational-quotes, openness, self-control, sorry, success-principles, taking-responsibility, vishwasutras

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#13

“Sometimes we learn the most about forgiveness when we realize how desperately we need it ourselves.”
― Glad Munaiseche

tags: forgiveness, learn, lesson, sorry

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#14

“Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: apologize, apologizing, apology, humility, i-m-sorry, pride, regret, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, sincere, sorry

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#15

“People who know that they are wrong and still don't feel sorry are those who never learn.”
― Shreya Gupta

tags: learn, sorry

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#16

“...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: changing, futility, sorry, wise-words

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#17

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement

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#18

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: progress

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#19

“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

tags: corrections, erring, mistakes, progress, responsibility

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#20

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: doubt, future, present, progress

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#21

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: action, inaction, perseverance, progress

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#22

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence

tags: distance, future, inspirational, progress, science, vision, work

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#23

“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. ”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

tags: change, progress

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#24

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: ideas-are-power, intellect, progress

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#25

“The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, fear, life, motivational, progress

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#26

“Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.”
― Pablo

tags: common-sense, energy, happiness, happy, inspiration, life, love, optimism, peace-of-mind, people, progress

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#27

“Change is the parent of progress.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, change, inspirational, life, motivational, progress

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#28

“Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.”
― Saadi

tags: critics, literature, poem, progress

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#29

“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

tags: argument, confrontation, progress

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#30

“Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology: Volume 3: Cosmology of the Bible

tags: adults, children, maturity, philosophy-of-life, progress

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