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#1

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads

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#2

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

tags: inspirational

3931 likes

#3

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

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#4

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

4153 likes

#5

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

3339 likes

#6

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

1740 likes

#7

“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”
― Christina Stead, Miss Herbert (the suburban wife)

tags: inspirational-life

955 likes

#8

“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

4295 likes

#9

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

3952 likes

#10

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

15828 likes

#11

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

tags: writing

3144 likes

#12

“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

1414 likes

#13

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

3563 likes

#14

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

1930 likes

#15

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

tags: deeds, poet, words

885 likes

#16

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
― Ann Rule

1142 likes

#17

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

1086 likes

#18

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

1692 likes

#19

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

1217 likes

#20

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

4228 likes

#21

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

tags: relationships

3379 likes

#22

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

3192 likes

#23

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

1684 likes

#24

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

1108 likes

#25

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

4545 likes

#26

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

4053 likes

#27

“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational

1407 likes

#28

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

tags: darkness, dreams, time

1176 likes

#29

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

1728 likes

#30

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

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