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[philosophybits]

“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”

— Seneca, On Providence

[philosophybits]

“Success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

[philosophybits]

“Success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

[brian4rmthe6]

[yourtryhard]

[wifislim]

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[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

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[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