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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

#2

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect

3237 likes

#3

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27977 likes

#4

“You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"
Sun."
After the darkness-"
Light."
And after the illness-"
Health."
Exactly," said the Tsar. "We mustn't give up faith.”
― Robert Alexander, The Kitchen Boy

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#5

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: the-hunger-games

19143 likes

#6

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

tags: peeta

12910 likes

#7

“Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

79 likes

#8

“Not everything that's true needs to be said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

860 likes

#9

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

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

114850 likes

#10

“So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

27 likes

#11

“Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

tags: life

559 likes

#12

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

1922 likes

#13

“It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.”
― Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You

29 likes

#14

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3224 likes

#15

“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: life

2296 likes

#16

“It's when you give something that you have very little of, that you truly give.”
― Marc Levy, If Only It Were True

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#17

“Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur”
― Marc Levy, If Only It Were True

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#18

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

1471 likes

#19

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5629 likes

#20

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

8112 likes

#21

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

1442 likes

#22

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

1686 likes

#23

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

3272 likes

#24

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

2806 likes

#25

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

3803 likes

#26

“Temos ciúmes, não porque duvidemos deles, mas porque não acreditamos em nós”
― Isabel Stilwell, Guia para ficar a saber ainda menos sobre as mulheres

tags: ciúme

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#27