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#1

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9165 likes

#2

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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#3

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

2953 likes

#4

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

3889 likes

#5

“If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you....”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

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#6

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17491 likes

#7

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

5404 likes

#8

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: failure, learning, moving-on, self-criticism, success

1051 likes

#9

“The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: adult, barrie, classics, fantasy, j-m, pan, peter, young

283 likes

#10

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness

3663 likes

#11

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4211 likes

#12

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

tags: cats

1677 likes

#13

“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
― J.M. Barrie

1756 likes

#14

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

2186 likes

#15

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3576 likes

#16

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3797 likes

#17

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: drinking, music

1441 likes

#18

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

tags: truth

16237 likes

#19

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

2628 likes

#20

“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

4223 likes

#21

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

1426 likes

#22

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

4032 likes

#23

“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

4187 likes

#24

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

2333 likes

#25

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

tags: creepy, woman

894 likes

#26

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

6457 likes

#27

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love, sadness

4110 likes

#28

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16165 likes

#29

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

tags: inspirational

1715 likes

#30

“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

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