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#1

“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

tags: desperation, toil

#2

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

7591 likes

#3

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

2955 likes

#4

“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

1038 likes

#5

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6732 likes

#6

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: equality, humanity, imagination, loneliness, poetry, solipsism, world

748 likes

#7

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: opportunity

2254 likes

#8

“Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.”
― Steve De Shazer

7 likes

#9

“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

91 likes

#10

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry, truth

1476 likes

#11

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

tags: love

1700 likes

#12

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

3455 likes

#13

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

2161 likes

#14

“Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

tags: childhood, children, parents, relationships, writing

28 likes

#15

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations

tags: creative-process, music, poetry, writing

274 likes

#16

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart

3262 likes

#17

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

17417 likes

#18

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

3578 likes

#19

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-lewis-carroll

1241 likes

#20

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: dream, imagination, reality, war

1788 likes

#21

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

84 likes

#22

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

2496 likes

#23

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18126 likes

#24

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

1641 likes

#25

“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
”
― Alice Munro

tags: writing

75 likes

#26

“Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”
― Alice Munro

tags: life

76 likes

#27

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

1815 likes

#28

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: wisdom

1434 likes

#29

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

872 likes

#30

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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