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#1

“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus

tags: motivational

#2

“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”
― Kate Braverman

tags: writing

15 likes

#3

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: writing

360 likes

#4

“If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: kindlehighlight

395 likes

#5

“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: experience, kindlehighlight, life-lessons

291 likes

#6

“the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat”
― William Faulkner

107 likes

#7

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4217 likes

#8

“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

62 likes

#9

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

5541 likes

#10

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

16445 likes

#11

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

9256 likes

#12

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4319 likes

#13

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: relationships

2481 likes

#14

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

1317 likes

#15

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

1823 likes

#16

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9097 likes

#17

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

22592 likes

#18

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

11450 likes

#19

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

1974 likes

#20

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

2426 likes

#21

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

tags: love

1704 likes

#22

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22529 likes

#23

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

1268 likes

#24

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
― Edgar Degas

541 likes

#25

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

5546 likes

#26

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

1728 likes

#27

“Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Ian Wallace

tags: fitting-in, inspirational, love-yourself

357 likes

#28

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46605 likes

#29

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

11503 likes

#30

“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in earnest.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

209 likes

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