Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
Marianne Williamson
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I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. Nixon
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Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Billy Graham
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although… he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess
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A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.
Joyce Meyer
Got any book recommendations?