r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 27m ago

Art / Literature / Poetry “To be nobody butyourself in a worldwhich is doing its best day and night to make you likeeverybody else means to fight the hardest battlewhich any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”―Edward Estlin Cummings

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r/quotes • u/the_jobbernowl • 4h ago

Social / Political Justice 'History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.' - John W. Campbell Jr.

32 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/oatkeepr • 8h ago

Art / Literature / Poetry There will be no art, no literature, no science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. - George Orwell, 1984

270 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 13h ago

Philosophy / Ethics “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”― Roy T. Bennett

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r/quotes • u/world_citizen7 • 16h ago

Life / Wisdom "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."- Lao Tzu, ancient philosopher

95 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/MeasurementMobile747 • 17h ago

Life / Wisdom Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, and causes you to bump into people not going your way.- Edna Ferberx

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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 19h ago

Life / Wisdom Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. Seneca

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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 1d ago

Life / Wisdom "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

185 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/chocobothernot • 1d ago

Life / Wisdom "If one's different, one's bound to be lonely." -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

124 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Serious_Distance_118 • 1d ago

Philosophy / Ethics “If a thought is expressible in human language, a science fiction story can be written about it” - Greg Bear

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r/quotes • u/ShameSudden6275 • 1d ago

Art / Literature / Poetry They will not break me. Fuck them all. They will not break me. But I will break them. This is my promise to myself, to my friends, and to you, anyone who reads these words. I will break them all. - The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Matt Dinniman

28 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 1d ago

Humor / Wit "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)

305 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 1d ago

Life / Wisdom How soon will time cover all things, and how many it has covered already. Marcus Aurelius

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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 1d ago

Success / Achievement “We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”— Ricardo Flores Magon

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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 2d ago

Life / Wisdom “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw

59 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Hefty-Distance837 • 2d ago

Creativity / Craft “The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.”― Donald Ervin Knuth

15 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/saucey_dawg0023 • 2d ago

Growth / Change “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”- Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

60 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/awoomi19 • 2d ago

Happiness / Joy "Who are the most beautiful people you've ever seen, and why are they your parents in a picture from when you were a baby" -unknown

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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago

Life / Wisdom “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”― Robin Williams

328 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom The mind that is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and repel every attack. Marcus Aurelius

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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 3d ago

Love / Relationships “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”― Carl Gustav Jung

69 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/BeyondTheSteth • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

88 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”― William Gibson

505 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Rohan72999 • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. -Sam Levenson

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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 3d ago

Life / Wisdom "Do not give alms alone, give charity; works of mercy do more than money for the relief of suffering; love others and they will love you; serve them and they will serve you; be their brother and they will be your children." — Rousseau, On Education

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