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[brian4rmthe6]

[philosophybits]

““No” and “yes” are short words requiring long thought.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

[thecalminside]

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

-Adyashanti

[lilmamabeyellin]

[quietlotus]

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”

— Thomas Merton

[doubleclutch]

Late Mother’s Day post

[philosophybits]

“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”

— Thomas Paine, “Public Good”

[philosophybits]

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”

— Michel de Montaigne, Essais

[brian4rmthe6]

[philosophybits]

“The deed is everything, the glory nothing.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

[philosophybits]

“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”

— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

[philosophybits]

“It is hard to fight against anger, but harder still to fight against pleasure.”

— Heraclitus, in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

[black-white-and-leather]

I am both worse and better than you thought. - Sylvia Plath

[chrisengel]

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it." Joan Didion

[philosophybits]

“Daring begins an action, but luck controls its end.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B269

[quotefeeling]

“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.”

— Unknown

[areallyuniquename]