The Quote Collector

My virtual quote book for those thoughts that touch my heart.

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There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

Susan Cain

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All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

Jacques Lacan

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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

C.G. Jung

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I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

M.C. Escher

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If it is still in your mind it is worth taking the risk.

Paulo Coelho

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No matter how silly you feel or uncool you look, no matter how small that voice inside you is, that voice telling you something isn’t right: listen to it.

Viv Albertine

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And empty words are evil.

Homer

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The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Paul Watzlawick

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Isaac Asimov

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White people and Black people are not having a discussion about race. Black people, thinking as a group, are talking about living in a racist system. White people, thinking as individuals, refuse to talk about “I, racist” and instead protect their own individual and personal goodness. In doing so, they reject the existence of racism.

John Metta, I, Racist

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You can’t calm the storm…so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.

Timber Hawkeye

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But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.

Katie Kacvinsky

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I have a deep fear of being too much. That one day I will find my someone, and they will realize that I am a hurricane. That they will step back and be intimidated by my muchness.

Michelle K

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There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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There are stars in your dark side brighter than the sun.

Andrea Gibson