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#1

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

tags: artistic, bohemian, change-the-world, doing, talking, visonary

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#2

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

tags: books-vacation

8563 likes

#3

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

2825 likes

#4

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

1106 likes

#5

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

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

4559 likes

#6

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life

4291 likes

#7

“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

1271 likes

#8

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy

1754 likes

#9

“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

4061 likes

#10

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

1870 likes

#11

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

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#12

“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

1803 likes

#13

“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

1612 likes

#14

“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

1141 likes

#15

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

3092 likes

#16

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

1940 likes

#17

“ثمة أرواح تعرف قرينها إذا رأته، في الغالب تكون تجربة أولى غير مشوشة بأي مشاعر عابرة أو سابقة، ربما التقت في عالم الذر من قبل، ربما تتشابه تلك الأرواح.”
― آلاء غنيم, الذاهبون إلى الشهادة

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#18

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

3496 likes

#19

“Friendship" is just a hot person's way of making you their slave.”
― Burgerpants

tags: friendship, undertale

9 likes

#20

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

tags: inspirational

3685 likes

#21

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

1875 likes

#22

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

2302 likes

#23

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

757 likes

#24

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

84392 likes

#25

“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

3012 likes

#26

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

25070 likes

#27

“In order to be a better writer, one must always write.”
― Safa Shaqsy, The Finite

tags: aliens, science-fiction, space-travel

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#28

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

4364 likes

#29

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

1171 likes

#30

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

64746 likes

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