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#1

“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
― Mikhail S. Gorbachev

tags: accomplishment, experience

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#1

“Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.”
― Mikhail S. Gorbachev

10 likes

#2

“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.”
― Mikhail S. Gorbachev

17 likes

#3

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
― Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories

900 likes

#5

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
― Agatha Christie

569 likes

#6

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: reflection

475 likes

#7

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

335 likes

#8

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

20373 likes

#9

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

9564 likes

#10

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

5128 likes

#11

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

5389 likes

#12

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression-silence

5253 likes

#13

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: life

3493 likes

#14

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature

5479 likes

#15

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: chaos, emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness

2282 likes

#16

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

1521 likes

#17

“Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise. ”
― Jane Austin

237 likes

#18

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23146 likes

#19

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

8865 likes

#20

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

4969 likes

#21

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

3717 likes

#22

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

2662 likes

#23

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2171 likes

#24

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: fathers, parenting, wisdom

1179 likes

#25

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom

4139 likes

#26

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

8497 likes

#27

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

6312 likes

#28

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

3766 likes

#29

“But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…”
― Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

tags: believing, faith

66 likes

#30

“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”
― Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

tags: humor, poetry

38 likes

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