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#1

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#2

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23779 likes

#3

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

8196 likes

#4

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93738 likes

#5

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

152067 likes

#6

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

2899 likes

#7

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

1437 likes

#8

“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp: An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by László Szigeti

tags: boredom, melancholy, writing

7 likes

#9

“These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
― Giorgio Vasari

860 likes

#10

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

1247 likes

#11

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

789 likes

#12

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

2194 likes

#13

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

852 likes

#14

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5550 likes

#15

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

6768 likes

#16

“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
― Kingsley Amis

tags: consciousness

830 likes

#17

“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

#18

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

16228 likes

#19

“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
― Federico García Lorca

717 likes

#20

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

1858 likes

#21

“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: reading

597 likes

#22

“Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

77 likes

#23

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

1537 likes

#24

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

2655 likes

#26

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3092 likes

#27

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

7691 likes

#28

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29740 likes

#29

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: life

4877 likes

#30

“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

2242 likes

#31

“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

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