Quotes - Laurel (laurelckriegler) Showing 1-30 of 229

#1

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#2

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

tags: inspirational

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#3

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#4

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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#5

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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#6

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

tags: agape, brotherly-love, charity, compassion

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#7

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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#8

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

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#9

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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#10

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

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#11

“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
― Alfred de Musset

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#12

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

tags: library, reading

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#13

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler

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#14

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

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#15

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

tags: words

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#16

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year

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#17

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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#18

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

tags: morning, night, optimism

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#19

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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#20

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#21

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#22

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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#23

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#24

“The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

tags: free

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#25

“My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

tags: friends, inspirational, train

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#26

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

tags: music

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#27

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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#28

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

tags: story, writing

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