Subconscious

Writer. My personal archive, featuring reflections on the human soul and the paradoxes of the mind.

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All that glitters is not gold.

— William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene VII

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet."

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. This is the fundamental difference between them: one is confident, the other doubts and therefore grows.

— William Shakespeare

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Don't educate children, they will resemble you anyway. Educate yourself. Children don't listen to what you say, they look at who you are. The best upbringing is personal example, not a tedious lecture.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

– Aristotle

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

— Pablo Picasso

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Nothing shows a person's character more than what they laugh at.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Joseph Brodsky

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The only person you should compare yourself to is the person you were in the past.

— Sigmund Freud

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

— Mark Twain

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

— Albert Einstein

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The ability to find joy in the little things is not immaturity. It is the pinnacle of a mature psyche that has realized that great happiness consists of tiny moments of "feeling good."

— Mikhail Zhvanetsky

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Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is there adequate perception of the world.

— Hans Margolius

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A person who reads is a person who knows how to be alone with themselves in any crowd. And they are never bored.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

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I don’t get offended by people; I just change my opinion of them. You can forgive a person, but after that, they become a stranger to you.

— Omar Khayyam

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I think that the more a person loves, the more they want to act: the love that is only a feeling, I would never call true love.

— Vincent van Gogh

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Light is everything. In case of doubt, do as the sunflower does. Look for the source of light and turn toward it.

— Bernard Werber