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#1

“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express

tags: childrens-books, christmas

56 likes

#2

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

tags: longing, love, sadness

1648 likes

#3

“Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

146 likes

#4

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

6692 likes

#5

“Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte

2 likes

#6

“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: jinnah, women, women-s-rights, women-s-strength-inspiration

281 likes

#7

“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

37 likes

#8

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

1380 likes

#9

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

5820 likes

#10

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

1917 likes

#11

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9164 likes

#12

“People shut their eyes to a distant tragedy saying there’s nothing they could do, yet they didn’t stand up for one happening nearby either because they’re too terrified. Most people could feel but didn’t act. They said they sympathized, but easily forgot. The way I see it, that was not real. I didn’t want to live like that.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

140 likes

#13

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: stars-dreams

2009 likes

#14

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

6300 likes

#15

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, dreams

1530 likes

#16

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: humor, idleness, inspirational

5363 likes

#17

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: inspirational, motivational

4779 likes

#18

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

7157 likes

#19

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31227 likes

#20

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: ennui

1138 likes

#21

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

78 likes

#22

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

1501 likes

#23

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

3016 likes

#24

“There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

117 likes

#25

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

1225 likes

#26

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23058 likes

#27

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: children, parents

3575 likes

#28