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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#2

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

11976 likes

#3

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

4307 likes

#4

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

6819 likes

#5

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

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#6

“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.”
― Jill Ker Conway

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#7

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

1976 likes

#8

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

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#9

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

1739 likes

#10

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

tags: healing, poetry

1637 likes

#11

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

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#12

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

tags: interests, personality, values

1935 likes

#13

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

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#14

“അതിരാണിപ്പാടത്തെ പുതിയ തലമുറയുടെ കാവല്‍ക്കാരാ, അതിക്രമിച്ചു കടന്നത്‌ പൊറുക്കൂ - പഴയ കൌതുകവസ്തുക്കള്‍ തേടിനടക്കുന്ന ഒരു പരദേശിയാണ് ഞാന്‍”
― S.K. Pottekkatt, ഒരു ദേശത്തിന്റെ കഥ | Oru Desathinte Katha

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#15

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

tags: falling, horse, inspirational, life, living, never-giving-up

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#16

“You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.”
― Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Vol. 1

1098 likes

#17

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

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#18

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
― Abraham Sutzkever

tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard

1157 likes

#19

“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

867 likes

#20

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise

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