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#1

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

tags: life

#2

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23457 likes

#3

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3053 likes

#4

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16205 likes

#5

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

4221 likes

#6

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

2761 likes

#7

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43886 likes

#8

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

4189 likes

#9

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4353 likes

#10

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

2894 likes

#11

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6460 likes

#12

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

2198 likes

#13

“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: apartheid, nadine-gordimer, south-africa, writing

49 likes

#14

“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: writing

71 likes

#15

“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1142 likes

#16

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

1713 likes

#17

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

1713 likes

#18

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2112 likes

#19

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
― Emma Lazarus

tags: united-states

1023 likes

#20

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6086 likes

#21

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
― A. A. Milne

tags: individuality

1987 likes

#22

“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

2242 likes

#23

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne

8337 likes

#24

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

4235 likes

#25

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9020 likes

#26

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

11163 likes

#27

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2885 likes

#29

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

3261 likes

#30

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

2572 likes

#31

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

1733 likes

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