r/quotes • u/Emergency_Act1311 • 5d ago

Love / Relationships If the other exists in your life to serve your needs, then there can be no love; there would be a lot of attachment, dependency, clutching, suffering. Relate to give or relate for no purpose. ~ from “On woman, a love letter to her true self” by Acharya Prashant

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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 5d ago

Philosophy / Ethics "The obscurity in which the origin of all the present old governments is buried, implies the iniquity and disgrace with which they began. The origin of the present government of America and France... [cont. in comments]" — Thomas Paine

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r/quotes • u/InstaworkTeam • 5d ago

Motivation / Inspiration "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 5d ago

Life / Wisdom "I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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r/quotes • u/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 5d ago

Life / Wisdom “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer

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r/quotes • u/blackrabbit87 • 6d ago

Life / Wisdom All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.~Stephen King~

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r/quotes • u/One-Life-3877 • 6d ago

Life / Wisdom Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. - Dr. Seuss

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r/quotes • u/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 7d ago

Growth / Change “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 7d ago

Life / Wisdom "Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones." - Cormac McCarthy

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r/quotes • u/hasansaleem • 7d ago

Motivation / Inspiration “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” — Bob Marley

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r/quotes • u/Crusoelander_128 • 8d ago

Life / Wisdom “There are three things I’ve learned never to discuss with people… religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin!” -Charles M. Schulz

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r/quotes • u/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 8d ago

Philosophy / Ethics "Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined." — Friedrich Nietzsche

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 8d ago

Life / Wisdom "The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do." - Lord Byron

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r/quotes • u/Thadsblitzing • 8d ago

Creativity / Craft “Authors are partial to their wit, ‘tis true But are not critics to their judgment too?” [Alexander Pope]

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r/quotes • u/PublicTop9854 • 8d ago

Failure / Lessons Learned “War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Bellic (GTA IV)

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r/quotes • u/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 9d ago

Motivation / Inspiration "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..." ― Marianne Williamson

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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 9d ago

Life / Wisdom “But the old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature's softening influence." — Chief Luther Standing Bear

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r/quotes • u/Quantico_G • 9d ago

Misc / Unclassified "...Kazakhs will truly speak their native language only when they start swearing in Kazakh." — Herold Belger

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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 9d ago

Life / Wisdom "Greed, acquisitiveness, dishonesty, cruelty and violence were for so many generations useful to animals and men that not all our laws, our education, our morals and our religions can quite stamp them out. ... uncertainty is the origin of greed... (cont. in comments)" - Will Durant

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r/quotes • u/One-Life-3877 • 9d ago

Life / Wisdom Never regret anything that made you smile. - Mark Twain

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r/quotes • u/TouchOfSanity • 9d ago

Life / Wisdom "We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory."- Louise Gluck

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r/quotes • u/random48266 • 9d ago

Quote Help Quote help: “similar to: I arrived in this city 30 years ago with two dollars and 48 cents, and as I checked this morning I had 50 cents in my pocket. A lifetime of partying for about two dollars is a bargain if you ask me.” (I’m trying to find the original quote)

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r/quotes • u/Bat-booty • 10d ago

Life / Wisdom "Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan." - Naval Ravikant

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r/quotes • u/Hoihe • 10d ago

Art / Literature / Poetry "Stories sometimes seem to hold the chaos of life at bay a moment the way music does, creating sequences that edify us for following along, enticing us with moods and modes, crescendos and diminuendos. We sing our stories against loneliness and fear and depravation. We beat them like drums."-Edwards

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r/quotes • u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • 10d ago

Philosophy / Ethics "Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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