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    Richard Dawkins
    “Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: god, morality, morals
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    Dante Alighieri
    “There is no greater sorrow
    Than to recall a happy time
    When miserable.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: dante, italian-medieval-poetry, nostalgia, à--𳦳--ٱ𳾱-
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The path to paradise begins in hell.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: heaven, hell, paradise
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: inferno-canto-vi-105
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “There is a saying: If a tiger comes down off his mountain and goes to the lowlands, he will be caught by humans and killed. It means if a practitioner leaves his or her Sangha, it becomes difficult to continue the practice. Taking refuge in the Sangha is not a matter of devotion. It is a matter of practice.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
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    Ivan Illich
    “Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.”
    ― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    David Hume
    “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
    ― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
    tags: beauty, beholder, evil, god, perception, religion, religious-meaning
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    David Hume
    “Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?”
    ― David Hume
    tags: atheism
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    David Hume
    “He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.”
    ― David Hume
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    Rick Riordan
    “I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: annabeth-chase, conceit, percy-jackson, self-esteem
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    Adriana Trigiani
    “Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.”
    ― Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap
    tags: beauty, conceit, pretty, self-confidence, self-image, southern-lit, trigiani
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: desire, lust
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    Anne Fortier
    “There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.”
    ― Anne Fortier, Juliet
    tags: love, lust
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    Jess C. Scott
    “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely
    tags: body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom
    944 likes

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    Julianne Davidow
    “Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.”
    ― Julianne Davidow
    tags: erotic, individual, lives, longing, love, merge
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    Elie Wiesel
    “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: obsession
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation
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    Chelsie Shakespeare
    “He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.”
    ― Chelsie Shakespeare
    tags: death, desire, dreams, love, meant-to-be, past-lives, reincarnation, romance-sexy, shakespeare, soulmates, story, vintage, young-adult
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    Terri Herman-Poncé
    “We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
    ― Terri Herman-Poncé, In This Life
    tags: love-triangle, paranormal, paranormal-series, paranormal-suspense, past-lives, reincarnation, romance, romantic-suspense, soul-mates
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: selfishness
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    Richard Bach
    “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
    Listen to it carefully.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: conscience, encouragement, inspiration, life, morality, selfishness, wisdom
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    Criss Jami
    “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny
    639 likes

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    Stephen Kendrick
    “Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. ”
    ― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
    tags: marriage, selfishness, selflessness
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    Ouida
    “Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
    ― Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
    tags: consideration, selfishness
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    Gene Wolfe
    “People don't want other people to be people.”
    ― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
    tags: labels, people, selfishness
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: human-nature, malice, people, selfishness
    172 likes



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