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Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

Flattery

September 25, 2023 · All posts on Sep 25

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

~ Denis Diderot

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Quotes Self-awareness Denis Diderot

If possible

September 24, 2023 · All posts on Sep 24

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

~ Goethe

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Goethe Listening Reading Quotes

Silence

September 23, 2023 · All posts on Sep 23

Silence is exhilarating at first—as noise is—but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

~ Edward Hoagland

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Quotes Listening Silence 7 for Sunday Edward Hoagland

Fear

September 22, 2023 · All posts on Sep 22

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

~ Francis Chan

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Francis Chan Progress Getting Things Done Quotes

Growth

September 21, 2023 · All posts on Sep 21

There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

~ Fred Rogers

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Quotes Growth Fred Rogers 7 for Sunday

Creativity

September 20, 2023 · All posts on Sep 20

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

~ Anthony Jay

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Quotes Questions Anthony Jay

Knowledge

September 19, 2023 · All posts on Sep 19

A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong.

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Quotes 7 for Sunday Knowledge Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sight

September 18, 2023 · All posts on Sep 18

I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

~ Agnes Varda

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Quotes Perspective Agnes Varda

Travel

September 17, 2023 · All posts on Sep 17

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.

~ Paul Auster

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Quotes Travel Perspective Paul Auster

Wisdom

September 16, 2023 · All posts on Sep 16

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

~ Bill Nye

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Wisdom Quotes 7 for Sunday Bill Nye

Leadership

September 15, 2023 · All posts on Sep 15

Leading into a world of unknowns, a world where you don’t have the answer, the best you can do is to ask better questions, as well as help those around you to do the same.

~ Pascal Finette

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Quotes Leadership Pascal Finette

The future

September 14, 2023 · All posts on Sep 14

To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do.) Each of us must find our work and do it.

~ Audre Lorde

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Quotes Optimism 7 for Sunday Audre Lorde

Reality

September 13, 2023 · All posts on Sep 13

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

~ Carl Jung

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Self-awareness Carl Jung Quotes Thought and Philosophy

Generosity

September 12, 2023 · All posts on Sep 12

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

~ Simone Weil

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7 for Sunday Attention Quotes Simone Weil

Equal talent

September 11, 2023 · All posts on Sep 11

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

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Rights and Law Quotes Perspective 7 for Sunday Stephen Jay Gould

Immortality

September 10, 2023 · All posts on Sep 10

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Susan Ertz

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Susan Ertz Memento Mori Quotes Snark

Vulnerability

September 9, 2023 · All posts on Sep 9

Vulnerable is the only way we can feel when we truly share the art we’ve made. When we share it, when we connect, we have shifted the power and made ourselves naked in front of the person we’ve given the gift of our art to. We have no excuses, no manual to point to, no standard operating procedures to protect us. And that is part of our gift.

~ Seth Godin

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7 for Sunday Creativity Seth Godin Quotes

Hate or pain

September 8, 2023 · All posts on Sep 8

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

~ James Baldwin

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Quotes Society On Writing James Baldwin

Character

September 7, 2023 · All posts on Sep 7

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Thought and Philosophy Quotes Character 7 for Sunday

Repetition

September 6, 2023 · All posts on Sep 6

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

~ André Gide

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Quotes Listening Conversation André Gide

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