r/quotes • u/kumano04 • 9h ago
Life / Wisdom Rumi said: " As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." Clarity doesn't come before action. It comes from action.
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 19h ago
Life / Wisdom “I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ― Langston Hughes
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r/quotes • u/Broad_Tap_5360 • 21h ago
Hope / Optimism A barrel to a monkey, is an egg to a bird. - a monkey
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a grand scale?” — St. Augustine, City of God (426 CE) [alt. translation & full quote in comments]
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r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius,
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r/quotes • u/DinDynamite • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "When people talk about travelling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small." ~Unknown
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Life / Wisdom "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification." - Emil Cioran
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus
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r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "Without music, life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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r/quotes • u/TouchOfSanity • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent." - Arthur Conan Doyle.
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r/quotes • u/Infamous_Tiger18 • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you never get it wrong." - John Flanagan
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r/quotes • u/Ill-Chocolate-8856 • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin
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r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.” — Maxim Gorky
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased." - Cormac McCarthy
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r/quotes • u/GrinchSinner • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” ― Jane Austen
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 4d ago
Humor / Wit “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.” ― Dorothy Parker
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r/quotes • u/Cereal-Is-Dinner • 4d ago
Success / Achievement “Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions” Forbes, 1917
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r/quotes • u/tavukkoparan • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you." -Max Payne (video game 2001)
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r/quotes • u/Rasure-101 • 5d ago
Love / Relationships “Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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r/quotes • u/EddieHazelOG • 5d ago
Social / Political Justice He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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r/quotes • u/PowerTulip • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers" - Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis
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r/quotes • u/Awesomeuser90 • 5d ago
Grief / Healing "There still remained the satisfactions of safety assured of peace restored of honour preserved of the comforts of fruitful industry of the homecoming of the soldiers, but these were in the background & With them all were mingled the ache for those who would never come home" -Indy Neidell, Great War
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