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#1

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

#2

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#3

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#4

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

4142 likes

#5

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

6310 likes

#6

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

5433 likes

#7

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: memory

3384 likes

#8

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

1833 likes

#9

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

2226 likes

#10

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

3018 likes

#11

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming

1732 likes

#12

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

2042 likes

#13

“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
― Delia Ephron, Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.

tags: truth

992 likes

#14

“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.”
― Rachel Simmons, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

625 likes

#15

“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
― Claude McKay

578 likes

#16

“The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.”
― Toni Collette

618 likes

#17

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

876 likes

#18

“Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”
― David Mamet

751 likes

#19

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

tags: death, love, separation

1140 likes

#20

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

7947 likes

#21

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

1428 likes

#22

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

2068 likes

#23

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
― Miranda July

1187 likes

#24

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

30814 likes

#26

“In a moment of pure frustration today, I came to the conclusion that there is no angry way to say 'bubbles'...”
― some guy

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#27

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: dumbledore, philosophy

3567 likes

#28

“The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: sirius-black

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