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#1

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

tags: night, poetry

#2

“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

6084 likes

#3

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21816 likes

#4

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

3322 likes

#5

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

4570 likes

#6

“The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.”
― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

109 likes

#7

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

tags: life

109288 likes

#8

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

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

2179 likes

#9

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

2262 likes

#10

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11719 likes

#11

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7688 likes

#12

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

2241 likes

#13

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

1967 likes

#14

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

tags: life, people, viewpoint

1812 likes

#15

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9270 likes

#16

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

3223 likes

#17

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

2572 likes

#18

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

2044 likes

#19

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

2278 likes

#20

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

1286 likes

#21