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Even if they don’t, you’ll still have a beautiful garden.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 249, "text": "Since my house burned down, I now own a better view of the rising moon.", "author": "Mizuta Masahide", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 648, "text": "That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche ", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 595, "text": "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 666, "text": "If you think that someone has ruined your life, you’re right; it’s you.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 718, "text": "The higher the mountains we climb, the deeper the roots that we find!", "author": "Steven Stückler aka. 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If you don't commit yourself to the point that you can be hurt, then you haven't committed yourself to the point that you can win either.", "author": "Kyle Creek", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 618, "text": "If you want a new idea, read an old book.", "author": "Ivan Pavlov", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 620, "text": "Who you are speaks so loudly that I can’t hear what you’re saying.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 165, "text": "It's not things that upset us, it's our judgement about things.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 226, "text": "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 266, "text": "Nothing, everything, anything, something: if you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 273, "text": "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 643, "text": "Don’t bother watering a plant expecting rain; nature will take care of it better than you ever could.", "author": "IC (Friend)", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 604, "text": "Not to be absolutely certain is one of the essential things in rationality.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 301, "text": "Who then is invincible? 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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 35, "text": "Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 30, "text": "All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.", "author": "James Allen", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 7, "text": "Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 715, "text": "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.", "author": "Eugene Ionesco", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 636, "text": "You can't give your life more time, so give the time that you have more life.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 31, "text": "People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is a confession of their character.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 633, "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", "author": "Bernard Baruch", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 613, "text": "At the end of the day, we all end up in the same place: six feet under or in a vase.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 90, "text": "They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 85, "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 194, "text": "The meaning of life is that it stops.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 209, "text": "Just because someone carries it well, doesn't mean it isn't heavy.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 605, "text": "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 201, "text": "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 135, "text": "Every reminiscence is coloured by today's being what it is, and therefore by a deceptive point of view.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 193, "text": "The true traveler never arrives.", "author": "Edgar Degas", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 199, "text": "If every time someone asks you a question, you try to say the right answer, your entire life is a test.", "author": "Kanye West", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 7, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 230, "text": "When nobody wakes you up in the morning, waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?", "author": "Charles Bukowski", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 591, "text": "Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.", "author": "Neil Strauss", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 625, "text": "Don’t let your food get cold watching someone else’s plate.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 240, "text": "If art is how we decorate space, then music is how we decorate time.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 228, "text": "Those who do not move do not notice their chains.", "author": "Rosa Luxemburg", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 229, "text": "When a person tells you you hurt them, you don't get to decide you didn't.", "author": "Louis C. 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Live as if you'll die today.", "author": "James Dean", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 313, "text": "The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 328, "text": "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 297, "text": "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 311, "text": "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 321, "text": "Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 326, "text": "Trust confident scepticism over arrogant conviction.", "author": "Cole Hastings", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 322, "text": "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 340, "text": "Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.", "author": "Naguib Mahfouz", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 363, "text": "When you want to help people, tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, tell them what they want to hear.", "author": "Thomas Sowell", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 89, "text": "All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 325, "text": "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 608, "text": "The present is the one and only way that we actually are.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 606, "text": "No amount of regretting can change the past; no amount of worrying can change the future.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 236, "text": "Look at you comforting others with the words you wish to hear.", "author": "William Wordsworth", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 480, "text": "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.", "author": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 402, "text": "I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 610, "text": "To change your perception is to change your life.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 401, "text": "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.", "author": "George Orwell", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 539, "text": "Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. 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