Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya Angelou
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
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I’m not perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost
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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
Marie Curie
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot
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