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#1

“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

tags: inspirational

168 likes

#2

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

3298 likes

#3

“Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

129 likes

#4

“Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

245 likes

#5

“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

148356 likes

#6

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

tags: inspirational

2950 likes

#7

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

tags: inspirational

2929 likes

#8

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

4099 likes

#9

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

3554 likes

#10

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

4726 likes

#11

“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”
― Ben Jonson

tags: genius, greatness, madness, touched

51 likes

#12

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life

8210 likes

#13

“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

227 likes

#14

“I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

829 likes

#15

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

1935 likes

#16

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

2739 likes

#17

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

3588 likes

#18

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry

775 likes

#19

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

5282 likes

#20

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

1504 likes

#21

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

tags: insanity, mental-illness, sickness, thoughts

594 likes

#22

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

2847 likes

#23

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

tags: the-hunger-games

19029 likes

#24

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127093 likes

#25

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

1264 likes

#26

“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
― Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses

tags: dog, door

622 likes

#27

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

4616 likes

#28

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

1011 likes

#29

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

1709 likes

#30

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

2306 likes

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