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#1

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: language

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#2

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#3

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: personal-growth, self-discovery

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#4

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning

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#5

“Mathematics, you see, is not a spectator sport. To understand mathematics means to be able to do mathematics. And what does it mean [to be] doing mathematics? In the first place, it means to be able to solve mathematical problems.”
― George Pólya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

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#6

“විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය බොහෝ දෙනා අදහස් කරන පරිදි බහුශ්‍රැතභාවය බෙදා දෙන තැනක් නොවේ. විද්‍යාර්ථින් විසින් තෝරා ගන්නා ලද ඒ ඒ විෂයට නිවැරදි සම්ප්‍රාප්තිය ලබා දෙන ආයතනයකි. අවුරුදු තුන හතරක් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයක ගත කිරීමෙන් ලද හැකි බහුශ්‍රැතභාවය කුමක්ද? එයින් ලබා ගත හැක්කේ ඊට නිවැරදි මග පෙන්වීම පමණකි. බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු විය හැක්කේ ඒ මාර්ගය දිගේ බොහෝ කලක් ගමන් කිරීමෙනි. කෙනෙකු බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු වීම ඇරඹෙන්නේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් පිට වූ තැන සිටය.”
― කේ. ජයතිලක, දින සටහන්

tags: education

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#7

“We cannot understand many of our problems because our way of thinking is generally based on ignorance which is the cause of imagination or illusion. (You and Your Problems)”
― K. Sri Dhammananda

tags: you-and-your-problems-psychology

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#8

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

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#9

“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: living, social-anxiety, yearning

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#10

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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#11

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: becoming, end, evolving, journey

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#12

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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#13

“The reality is; there is something which exist but what that something is; remains a question. Either because we are not capable to reveal it yet or because with time and movement it changes itself and has no truth in it. But what’s the reason for its existence without having or revealing any truth, that’s the evidence we need to find.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

tags: change, epistemology, existence, philosophy, reality, truth

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#14

“ස��ද්ධාර්ථ!
එබැවින් අද
නියත විවරණය මට දුන මැනව.

මේ ලියන මේසය ළඟ
මේ පුටුව මත හිඳ
මේ ලිපිගොනු අතර මැද-
හාන පෝරුගාන වී වපුරන වෙල්යායක-
සටන් පාඨ
වැඩ වර්ජන
කම්හල් දැති රෝද අතර-
ගෑනු පිරිමි එක රොත්තට හිරවීගෙන
උදේ සවස වැඩට යනෙන කෝච්චියක
දෙනෝදාහක් සෙනග අතර-
බුදු වීමට;
තනියම නොව
දෙනෝදාහක් සෙනග එක්ක
අපි ඔක්කොම එකට බුදු වීමට.”
― මහගම සේකර, ප්‍��බුද්ධ

tags: life, philosophy, prabudda, ප-රබ-ද-ධ

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#15

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: inspirational

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#16

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: certainty, doubt, fanatics, fools, wisdom

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#17

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: love

31261 likes

#18

“- චන්ද්‍රානි වගේ කවුරුත් මේ ලෝකෙ ඇතියි කියල මං හිතන්නෙ නෑ.

- ඒ ඇයි? ඒ චරිතය හරිම තාත්විකයි.

- චන්ද්‍රානි මවාපු චරිතයක්. ඒක තාත්වික වෙන්ඩ ඇති. ඒ උණාට තාත්වික චරිතයක් කියන්නෙ හැබෑ චරිතයක් නෙවි. හැබෑ මිනිසුන් පොත්වල චරිත තරම් තාත්වික නෑ”
― කේ. ජයතිලක, අ��ී��ණය

tags: reality-of-life

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#19

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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#20

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed, attributed-to-einstein-no-source, buddhism, religion, science, unsourced

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#21

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#22

“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#23

“To exist is simply to he there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anything from them.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#24

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: crativity, money, production

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#25

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: adventure, bravery, inspirational, life

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#26

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

164459 likes

#27

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#28

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#29

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: ambition

1053 likes

#30

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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