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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Joseph Campbell
Religion You Trouble Own Every Way One-Way Stuck Facts True Another Understood Metaphors Gets Them Then Interpreting
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. Leo Buscaglia
Love Love Is Hate Strong Giving Feeling Damn Strong Feeling Opposite Very Apathy
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain
You Grief Joy Care Value Somebody Must Divide Take Take Care Itself Get Full
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain
Word Right Word Rightly Effective May Pause Ever Right
The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that's only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within. Travis Bradberry
Best Great You People Think Other Others Way Best Way Only Prey True Terrible Within Opinion Opinions How Falling Self-Worth Just Regardless Realize Your Avoid
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one. Zig Ziglar
Alone You Integrity Will Leader Never True Make Without
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A. A. Milne
You Waiting Sometimes Brainy Corner Others Stay Come Go Forest Them Your
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne
Constantly Exciting Advantages Making Discoveries Being Disorderly
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen. Anne Lamott
Eyes Try Spring Pay Pay Attention Trees Attention Look Around Am Up Close Going Listen Hectic Flowers
To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing. Anthony Bourdain
You People Thought Bad Find Bad Thing Had Well Very Expect Common Where Places Little Thing Things Treated
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. Christopher Hitchens
You Superior Own Asylum My Own Civilisation Colony Prove Undesirable Dumping Get Unfit Either Planet View Used Ground Rid Disprove Lunatic
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are. Eckhart Tolle
Thoughts You Suffering Wonderful Problem World Confuse Thinking Tool Fine Only Becomes Source Problematic Them Then Create Who Things
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. J. Donald Walters
Happiness Attitude Be Happy Happy Determination Simple Mind Circumstances Born Outward
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. Joseph Campbell
Own Transformation Thinking Heroic Our Ourselves About Primarily Undergo Self-Preservation Truly Quit Consciousness
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. Joseph Campbell
Achieve Value Alive Rapture Outer About Purposes Doing Forget Being Engaged Things Inner Associated
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.' Lewis Carroll
You People Alice Mad Cat Said Go Oh Want Help Among Here
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. Mark Twain
Noise Nothing Asteroid Merely She Proves Egg Often Laid Who Hen
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. Michel Houellebecq
Love You Trust Dog Pure Must Total Betray Gives He Which Thing
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! Og Mandino
Work Today You Live Though Would Another Go Forever Die Mile
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. Ravi Zacharias
Life Education Wisdom God You Will Books Carry Only Through Toughest Learn Ultimately Situations Much
If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance. Suze Orman
Life You Relatives Parents Life Insurance Insurance Dependent Children Anyone Your Income Need
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. Thomas Merton
Love Alone Others Ourselves Properly Only Fact Thus Also Exist Begin To Love Convinced Fully
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop
Success Kindness Imagination Our Only Small Limited However Success Is Act Ever Wasted Level
United we stand, divided we fall. Aesop
Fall Divided Stand United
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. Ann Voskamp
Life God Good Nature Rain Good Things Song World My Life Thanks Pain Stars Nights Wild Neglect Summer Tell Run Wound Rise Give Only Gives Rivers Perfume Falls July Heavy Roses Lived Deepen Things Early
You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Brene Brown
Love You Struggle Worthy Imperfect Wired Belonging
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