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#1

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
― Rudolf Steiner

#2

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21432 likes

#3

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

1503 likes

#4

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

3335 likes

#5

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

tags: reading

2004 likes

#6

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

3111 likes

#7

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

2386 likes

#8

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177072 likes

#9

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6892 likes

#10

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

2276 likes

#11

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17085 likes

#12

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

1639 likes

#13

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

6490 likes

#14

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

tags: inspirational, life

2112 likes

#15

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9118 likes

#16

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6774 likes

#17

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: courage, happiness, work

2776 likes

#18

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

4210 likes

#19

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

3183 likes

#20

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

3549 likes

#21

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

2326 likes

#22

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

3301 likes

#23

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

1283 likes

#24

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

2858 likes

#25

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

2744 likes

#26

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: romance, storytelling

3829 likes

#27

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: inspirational

2950 likes

#28

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

tags: books

2573 likes

#29

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4138 likes

#30

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

14974 likes

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