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#1

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7872 likes

#2

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

2893 likes

#3

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

3133 likes

#4

“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

4108 likes

#5

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

1344 likes

#6

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: hope, love

2501 likes

#7

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

tags: inspirational

1714 likes

#8

“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

782 likes

#9

“I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
― Amy Vanderbilt

662 likes

#10

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

1288 likes

#11

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity

2331 likes

#12

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

1219 likes

#13

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

1741 likes

#14

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3058 likes

#15

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

2477 likes

#16

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

1691 likes

#17

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2112 likes

#18

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3143 likes

#19

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

2394 likes

#20

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6086 likes

#21

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1136 likes

#22

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

1092 likes

#23

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

2179 likes

#24

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

1552 likes

#25

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

1678 likes

#26

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

934 likes

#27

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9014 likes

#28

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

tags: anonymity, blending-in

2103 likes

#29

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

4381 likes

#30

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2884 likes

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