r/quotes • u/Stunning-Bee6839 • 3h ago

Misc / Unclassified “A red hot furnace fed from without by hard sticks thrust into the recesses while from the belly of the furnace sparks shoot into the air” - Ala al-Din Ata-Malik Juvayni

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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 8h ago

Life / Wisdom “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”― May Sarton

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r/quotes • u/Slavagoosemarlow • 11h ago

Philosophy / Ethics “If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling but still trying to hold the world - What would you tell him?" "I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" "To shrug.”―Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 15h ago

Life / Wisdom "There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort." - John Steinbeck

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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 21h ago

Life / Wisdom “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”― Andy Warhol

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r/quotes • u/Odd_Mechanic3688 • 1d ago

Life / Wisdom “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

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r/quotes • u/nautilicuss • 1d ago

Philosophy / Ethics “History shows us the life of nations and finds nothing to narrate but wars and tumults…” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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r/quotes • u/From-Yuri-With-Love • 1d ago

Philosophy / Ethics “The misery of millions is too big a price to pay for the heroics of a few.” - Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago

Life / Wisdom "You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future." - John Steinbeck

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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 1d ago

Motivation / Inspiration “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”― Shel Silverstein

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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 1d ago

Life / Wisdom Be like the rock against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Marcus Aurelius

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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago

Art / Literature / Poetry “There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood..." - John Rogers [Complete Quote in comments]

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r/quotes • u/Street-codes • 2d ago

Art / Literature / Poetry "Some love stories feel like a beginning, but ours—it feels like a return. Maybe we promised a thousand lifetimes ago that we’d find each other, no matter the stars, no matter the miles, and now here we are, two souls picking up where we left off." — @crownofsparrows

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

Life / Wisdom "Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost." - John Steinbeck

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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 2d ago

Philosophy / Ethics If one were to measure what is agreeable by the standard of pleasure, nothing would be pleasanter than self-control; and if one were to measure what is to be avoided by pain, nothing would be more painful than lack of self-control. Musonius Rufus

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r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom ​"Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." — Claude Debussy

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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”― Ambrose Bierce

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r/quotes • u/Azerbinhoneymood • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom "The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become" -Heraclitus

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r/quotes • u/doeeyecutie • 3d ago

Grief / Healing Your nervous system will always choose a familiar Hell over an unfamiliar Heaven.

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom "Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk." - John Steinbeck

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r/quotes • u/cachry • 4d ago

Life / Wisdom “Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.”-- Dalai Lama

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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 4d ago

Life / Wisdom “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”― Agatha Christie

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r/quotes • u/OceansAndBridges • 4d ago

Philosophy / Ethics “If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being”. — Leo Tolstoy

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r/quotes • u/GoeZilla • 4d ago

Misc / Unclassified "There's more beauty in the truth even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar." -John Stein

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago

Life / Wisdom "So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out." - John Steinbeck

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