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#1

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

13691 likes

#2

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”
― Harper Lee

tags: books, reading, thinking

136 likes

#3

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

844 likes

#4

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

tags: civil-disobedience, henry-david-thoreau

170 likes

#5

“Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.”
― E.B. White, Stuart Little

tags: misspelled-word

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#6

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7666 likes

#7

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

2265 likes

#8

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

tags: writing

856 likes

#9

“Be obscure clearly.”
― E.B. White

tags: on-writing

136 likes

#10

“Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.”
― E.B. White

116 likes

#11

“Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.”
― E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

tags: freedom, the-trumpet-of-the-swan

61 likes

#12

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
― E.B. White

237 likes

#13

“All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

255 likes

#14

“You gotta imagine what's never been.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

192 likes

#15

“It's your time to live, don't mess it up.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

153 likes

#16

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

204 likes

#17

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18380 likes

#18

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

2110 likes

#19

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

84285 likes

#21

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

40759 likes

#22

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

6059 likes

#23

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: friends

2613 likes

#24

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

1303 likes

#25

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: contentment, goals, happiness, life, satisfaction

1163 likes

#26

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
― Jacques Cousteau

155 likes

#27

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

tags: conservation, earth, life, nature, pollution

155 likes

#28

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

31370 likes

#29

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased

22706 likes

#30

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling

10852 likes

#31

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa

2832 likes

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