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#1

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

2272 likes

#2

“Free will...it's all the rage these days”
― Lauren Kate, Passion

tags: free-will, love, passion

29 likes

#3

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

tags: flattery, praise, words

1831 likes

#4

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

3143 likes

#5

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

2282 likes

#6

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: inspirational, life

1663 likes

#7

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

3549 likes

#8

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

2189 likes

#9

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7578 likes

#10

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

2547 likes

#11

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: hope

2002 likes

#12

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6889 likes

#13

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

2846 likes

#14

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

tags: future, hope

3631 likes

#15

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

2318 likes

#16

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

2066 likes

#17

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20749 likes

#18

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39281 likes

#19

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

2468 likes

#20

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

2675 likes

#21

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
― Amy Sedaris

1050 likes

#22

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

4012 likes

#23

“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

#24

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

2336 likes

#25

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

3500 likes

#26

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

3575 likes

#27

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

3836 likes

#28

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

3795 likes

#29

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2047 likes

#30

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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