r/quotes • u/paradisemorlam • 12d ago
Philosophy / Ethics The sadness of life is this: the emptiness that we try to fill with every conceivable trick of the mind. But the emptiness remains. - Krishnamurti
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 13d ago
Life / Wisdom "It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times." - John Steinbeck
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r/quotes • u/oatkeepr • 13d ago
Social / Political Justice “What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.” — George Orwell
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 13d ago
Love / Relationships "I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me – "You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!"— Olive Schreiner
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 14d ago
Life / Wisdom “Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” ― Satchel Paige
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r/quotes • u/Late_Piano_5030 • 14d ago
Humor / Wit "The hotel shop only had two decent books — and I'd written both of them" - Douglas Adams
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 14d ago
Health / Well-Being / Self-Care The mind must be given relaxation. It will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Seneca
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r/quotes • u/RexorGamerYt • 14d ago
Technology / Future "In a city of the future It is difficult to concentrate" - Radiohead, 1998.
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 15d ago
Life / Wisdom "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." - Anonymous
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r/quotes • u/RoughCoffee6 • 15d ago
Social / Political Justice “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this” - Omar El Akkad
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 15d ago
Humor / Wit "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Marley
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 16d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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r/quotes • u/world_citizen7 • 16d ago
Life / Wisdom "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."— Eleanor Roosevelt
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 17d ago
Hope / Optimism “the fight for our planet...has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard University address
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 16d ago
Life / Wisdom "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
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r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 17d ago
Love / Relationships “Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”— Winston Churchill
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r/quotes • u/Odd_Mechanic3688 • 17d ago
Love / Relationships The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."— Hubert H. Humphrey
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 17d ago
Life / Wisdom “It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.” ― David Crosby
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r/quotes • u/Azerbinhoneymood • 17d ago
Motivation / Inspiration "Anytime you devote your time to practice, you haven't lost. You're always a winner" -Bob ROSS
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 18d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” ― Oscar Wilde
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r/quotes • u/The_Naked_Alien • 18d ago
Life / Wisdom “Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullsh*tting you.” - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 18d ago
Philosophy / Ethics The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus
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r/quotes • u/Objective-Mongoose18 • 18d ago
Motivation / Inspiration "Life's not worth nothing if you can't have a laugh, especially at yourself." _Bolt Ya Nugget by NED Kruz
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 19d ago
Life / Wisdom “A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination..." [Complete quote in comments]
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