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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
British
Author
Born:
Jan 25
,
1882
Died:
Mar 28
,
1941
Topics
Boredom
,
Kingdom
,
Legitimate
,
Philanthropic
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Goes
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
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Feeling
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Everything
Boredom
Serenity
Waste
Waste Of Time
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale
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Idea
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Good Idea
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Heraclitus
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Same Thing
Boredom
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Only
Over
Than
Same
Controlled
Again
Thing
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Creativity
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Period
Always
Precedes
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Boredom
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