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#1

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

3209 likes

#2

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

4178 likes

#3

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

1726 likes

#4

“My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.”
― Peter Matthiessen

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#5

“Moment by moment, breath by breath...that is my greatest teaching.”
― Peter Matthiessen

tags: zen

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#6

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: inspiration

165 likes

#7

“Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: writing

114 likes

#8

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational

11095 likes

#9

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational

3203 likes

#10

“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: hope, life, pain, strength, tragedy

2507 likes

#11

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

2477 likes

#12

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing

813 likes

#13

“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

1403 likes

#14

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

1914 likes

#15

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

2731 likes

#16

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

13999 likes

#17

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

4487 likes

#18

“...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.”
― Jimmy Buffet

tags: happy, life, luck

3 likes

#19

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: beautiful, behind, kind, of, pain, thing

2935 likes

#20

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing

949 likes

#21

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9634 likes

#22

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

8463 likes

#23

“$80,000 worth of motion-picture film, taken out five years earlier, protecting against “fires, pirates, rovers, assailing thieves, jettison, barratry of the master and mariners and all other perils, losses and misfortunes.”
― Jon Mooallem, American Hippopotamus

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