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#1

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: realist

3669 likes

#2

“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside”
― John F. Kennedy

52 likes

#3

“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
― Charles de Lint, Moonheart

tags: qotd, wonders

1775 likes

#4

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

tags: family

1074 likes

#5

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

tags: madness, sanity

1715 likes

#6

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

1061 likes

#7

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

3243 likes

#8

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

6463 likes

#9

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

tags: benevolence, charity, integrity

618 likes

#10

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77748 likes

#11

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

6566 likes

#12

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

tags: reading

2004 likes

#13

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

3854 likes

#14

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

tags: inspirational, life

2124 likes

#15

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

589 likes

#16

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
― William Faulkner

247 likes

#17

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109285 likes

#18

“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: fear, past

361 likes

#19

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12720 likes

#20

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12164 likes

#21

“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: inspirational

221 likes

#22

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: fear, grief, sorrow

3050 likes

#23

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: equity, justice, laws

1368 likes

#24

“Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.”
― Irving Howe

tags: iconoclasm, modernity

7 likes

#25

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

tags: inspirational, justice, mlk

666 likes

#26

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: repression, strength

1664 likes

#27

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: life

2061 likes

#28

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, power-of-words

1709 likes

#29

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, fiction, on-fiction, stories, writing

393 likes

#30

“What better place to kill time than a library?”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books

340 likes

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