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Aprille Walker's avatar

Love this and so many of these are quotes I think of often and live by. Love your restatements! Thanks Mark....good start to my week!

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Mark's avatar

Thanks very much for reading, I've got a sequel in the works, with a twist. I just need to collect enough quotes!

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Mayank's avatar

Loved this format invented by you. Hope you'll come up with more of these in the future. I'd love to do the same, it's superb to reflect on something that impacted you by expressing it.

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Mark's avatar

I can’t say I invented it Mayank. Full credit goes to @Stefano Miele for giving me the idea. I have a music lyrics related one and a Film quotes one planned. They are to be my “back up” posts when I’ll struggle to get a post finished, primarily because its a quick, “easy win” post to write. They practically write themselves!

Thanks for reading Mayank and you absolutely should write your own!

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Yannis Helios's avatar

Each quote you presented here is a way of life. That's why philosophy is so important.

Thanks, Mark, for the reminder.

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Mark's avatar

and thank you for reading Yannis.

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Moon Arica's avatar

So many good stuff here, saved this post for future reference! Thanks Mark.

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Mark's avatar

Thanks for reading Moon😊

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Malick Abdullah's avatar

Love the format of this post Mark, a lot of wisdom here to reflect on.

A question I have is how have some of your favourite quotes changed the way you approach life? It's one thing to understand and reflect, but have they had a large enough impact to change the way you act?

For some of these quotes, they are reminders that reframe what we know and can therefore articulate an approach we may take in future, but I'll be interested to hear if any have affected your day-to-day.

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Mark's avatar

Thanks Malick, It’s more a case of the quotes reaffirming what I believe to be true, or pointing me in the right direction. Like when you read them, they just click. Then I put what they mean to me into my own words because i suppose that’s what I always thought anyway.

I think with the exception of the MLK quote which I only came across recently when writing my “Unspoken Truth” post that has made me change the way I see things in any significant way.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Comparing the context in which it was written, to my own life seems kind of insignificant, but it really does ring true, true friends stand up for one another and at the time one doesn’t who could have or should have, that says a lot.

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Virginia Curtis's avatar

All great quotes, and your reinterpretation is spot on.

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Mark's avatar

Thanks Virg 😊

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