Quotes - Dipti (India) Showing 1-30 of 119

#1

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#2

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#3

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

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#4

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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#5

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

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#6

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

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#7

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

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

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#8

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

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#9

“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska

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#10

“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#11

“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
― John Boyne , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: death, friendship, holocaust, inspirational, life, love, tear-jerker, wwii-fiction

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#12

“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: children, epiphany, holocaust, thoughts

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#13

“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: exploring

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#14

“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? ”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#15

“He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.
"You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#16

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

tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational

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#17

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

tags: death, death-and-humor, death-and-love, dying, loss

1012 likes

#18

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

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#19

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

17543 likes

#20

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#21

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank

tags: work

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#22

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

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#23

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

”
― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

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#24

“And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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#25

“He decided to talk to the Hopeless Case”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#26

“Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#27

“We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: boys, jews, pajamas

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#28