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#1

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

15761 likes

#2

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21824 likes

#3

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

3193 likes

#4

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

1607 likes

#5

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
― Pauline Kael

1269 likes

#6

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

3946 likes

#7

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

tags: folly, foolishness, luck, merits, nero-wolfe, vainer, vainity, wisdom, wise

572 likes

#9

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

1197 likes

#10

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

4618 likes

#11

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

1699 likes

#12

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

1206 likes

#13

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

2004 likes

#14

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
― Martin Amis

656 likes

#15

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

3875 likes

#16

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

2854 likes

#17

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate

2217 likes

#18

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

1406 likes

#19

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

1833 likes

#20

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

852 likes

#21

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

tags: an-angel-for-emily, emily-todd

1991 likes

#22

“I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
― Harold Pinter, Betrayal

390 likes

#23

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

4837 likes

#24

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

1473 likes

#25

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

2468 likes

#26

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6642 likes

#27

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

1749 likes

#28

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

2093 likes

#29

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

1626 likes

#30

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

1566 likes

#31

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

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