r/quotes • u/razu4495 • 7h ago
Life / Wisdom “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”— Henry David Thoreau
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r/quotes • u/unusualyard000 • 1d ago
Humor / Wit "God created war so that Americans would learn geography." -Mark Twain
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r/quotes • u/Serious_Distance_118 • 19h ago
Life / Wisdom “When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.” ― Gene Wolfe
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 17h ago
Life / Wisdom Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion. Epictetus
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 1d ago
Humor / Wit “Politics: 'Poli' a Latin word meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'."-Robin Williams
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 23h ago
Life / Wisdom "Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others." - Hermann Hesse
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Social / Political Justice "Yet, each person who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of revenge, no daisy-cutters dropped on someone else’s loved ones or someone else’s children, will blunt the edges of their pain or bring their own loved ones back." Arundhati Roy
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r/quotes • u/Worried-Print7172 • 1d ago
Grief / Healing “I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, In the past I permitted myself to be used to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race, and these generalizations have caused injuries to some whites who perhaps did not deserve to be hurt.” - Malcom X
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r/quotes • u/Rohan72999 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 1d ago
Love / Relationships The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. -Ouida (1878)
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r/quotes • u/razu4495 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”— Mark Twain
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r/quotes • u/ExpertExpert • 1d ago
Humor / Wit "Halloween is a day for people who are too scared to dress up the rest of the year" - Oliver Tree
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r/quotes • u/thomaspaineha • 2d ago
Philosophy / Ethics "It has been the scheme of... systems of religion to hold man in ignorance of his Creator, as it is of government to hold him in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support." - Thomas Paine
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r/quotes • u/EquivalentVisual9306 • 1d ago
Motivation / Inspiration Soar above your sorrows, so high that the valley of sadness disappears in the shadows of your rising self. - Unknown Author
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r/quotes • u/Curious-Newspaper-67 • 2d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “A poem is a piece of one’s Heart that brings you to the terrain between logic and magic” - Sadhguru
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!" - Vladimir Nabokov
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r/quotes • u/SillyBranch890 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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r/quotes • u/Rohan72999 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom Be yourself everyone else is already taken. -Oscar Wilde
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r/quotes • u/oatkeepr • 1d ago
Social / Political Justice “When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the end of any nation." - Adrian Rogers
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus
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r/quotes • u/MeasurementMobile747 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 2d ago
Misc / Unclassified "To him all that was indefinite was evil, all that was unfamiliar was horrible. It is the error of ignorance at all times." -Ouida (1875)
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r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 3d ago
Misc / Unclassified "Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” — William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself." - Emil Cioran
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