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#1

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: storytelling

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#2

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#3

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

1193 likes

#4

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11152 likes

#5

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

1661 likes

#6

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#7

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
― Daniel Defoe

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#8

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
― Daniel Defoe

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#9

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37063 likes

#10

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

2969 likes

#11

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

1445 likes

#12

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

1147 likes

#13

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

2413 likes

#14

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

2469 likes

#15

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

3086 likes

#16

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6641 likes

#17

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: humor, politics, stupidity

1639 likes

#18

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception

1131 likes

#19

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination

651 likes

#20

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: popular

395 likes

#21

“To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.”
― Lori McWilliam Pickert

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning, learning-process, project-based-homeschooling, unschooling

23 likes

#22

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

2477 likes

#23

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

1024 likes

#24

“The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
― Ira Gershwin

628 likes

#25

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

2591 likes

#26

“The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

tags: dreams, reason

171 likes

#27

“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

tags: always, changed, fact, humble, humor, opinions, right

532 likes

#28

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

2429 likes

#29

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

tags: philosophical, spiritual

1389 likes

#30

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

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