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  • #1
    Anton Chekhov
    “Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.”
    Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories

  • #2
    Michael Cunningham
    “I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
    Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

  • #3
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #4
    Bob Hope
    “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
    Bob Hope

  • #5
    “I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
    Harlan Miller

  • #6
    Leonard Woolf
    “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
    Leonard Woolf

  • #7
    Winston S. Churchill
    “This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”
    Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

  • #9
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

  • #10
    Paul Klee
    “One eye sees, the other feels.”
    Paul Klee
    tags: art

  • #11
    Robert Penn Warren
    “Tell me a story of deep delight.”
    Robert Penn Warren

  • #12
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #13
    Charlie Chaplin
    “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.”
    Charlie Chaplin

  • #14
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #15
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Frank Zappa
    “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #18
    Tyler Knott Gregson
    “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”
    Tyler Knott Gregson

  • #19
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #20
    Jostein Gaarder
    “It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

  • #21
    Robert Frost
    “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

  • #22
    Joseph Brodsky
    “Man is what he reads.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #23
    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    Washington Irving

  • #24
    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #25
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

  • #26
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #27
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #28
    Alexander Pushkin
    “I want to understand you,
    I study your obscure language.”
    Alexander Pushkin

  • #29
    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #30
    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    Aldous Huxley



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