Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
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A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan
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I was always growing, so it made no sense for my mom and dad to load me up with a bunch of clothes. But I hated coming to school and feeling like a girl could be like, ‘Iman’s probably gon’ wear this today.’ So I would always have to mix and match and find a way to look different. I took a lot of pride in that.
Iman Shumpert
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured… At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
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We must absolutely take care of one another.
Ruby Bridges
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The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies – thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
D. H. Lawrence
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Lord, help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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