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#1

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#2

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76497 likes

#3

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

11982 likes

#4

“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

5892 likes

#5

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

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#6

“Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

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#7

“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

tags: katniss-everdeen, suzanne-collins, thoughtful

2234 likes

#8

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

tags: the-hunger-games

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#9

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends

32109 likes

#10

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

2312 likes

#11

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, life

20963 likes

#12

“It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.”
― Taylor Swift

1336 likes

#13

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25518 likes

#14

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8653 likes

#15

“Но след малко тя почувствува изведнъж, че това, което изпитваше, не беше ни храброст, ни самообладание, ни съзнание за дълг, а просто равнодушие. То бе някаква умора от всичко, което я заобикаляше, някаква досада от света и хората, някаква намалена жизненост,..”
― Dimitar Dimov, Тютюн

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#16

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats

1586 likes

#17

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23580 likes

#18

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15053 likes

#19

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9532 likes

#20

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

3214 likes

#21

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

3210 likes

#22

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: atheism, inspirational

2624 likes

#23

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

tags: book, inspirational

12714 likes

#24

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

8609 likes

#25

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

10726 likes

#26

“After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded.

The things you've done will crumble and fade and the places you once loved, will change and be given new names.

You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

tags: life

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#27

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

24268 likes

#28

“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: kindlehighlight

780 likes

#29

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars

5817 likes

#30

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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