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#1

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: friendship, love

21786 likes

#2

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109289 likes

#3

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127093 likes

#4

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

tags: inspirational

14554 likes

#5

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: childhood, summer, winter

808 likes

#6

“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
― Robert Frost

tags: disorganized, style-of-living

1110 likes

#7

“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”
― Robert Frost

270 likes

#8

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost

tags: aging, future-plans

689 likes

#9

“People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.”
― Bryan White

tags: adulthood, childhood

127 likes

#10

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6448 likes

#11

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: sense-of-wonder, universe

1189 likes

#12

“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”
― Emma Smith

tags: gently, life, rapid, river, simile, sweep

87 likes

#13

“I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.”
― Katherine Mansfield

46 likes

#14

“This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.”
― Katherine Mansfield

64 likes

#15

“To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield

38 likes

#16

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep

1887 likes

#17

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder

2200 likes

#18

“Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: advice-for-daily-living

197 likes

#19

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9941 likes

#20

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

4686 likes

#21

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

2612 likes

#22

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”
― Jane Yolen

tags: writing

84 likes

#23

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

6226 likes

#24

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

5546 likes

#25

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

7152 likes

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