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#1

“Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

tags: advice, stars

816 likes

#2

“You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide. ”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

362 likes

#3

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy

1275 likes

#4

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

tags: adulthood, humor

731 likes

#5

“The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!”
― Thea von Harbou, Metropolis

tags: science-fiction-movie

313 likes

#6

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
― Maria Edgeworth

785 likes

#7

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind

2614 likes

#8

“Written words can also sing.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

tags: inspirational, writing

404 likes

#9

“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
― Alan Paton

tags: complaining, love

512 likes

#10

“Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”
― Edmund Burke

306 likes

#11

“The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.”
― Emily Hahn, Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

418 likes

#12

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: humor, idleness, inspirational

5369 likes

#13

“But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
― Gloria Naylor

988 likes

#14

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

1797 likes

#15

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20742 likes

#16

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

7948 likes

#17

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

1609 likes

#18

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

1791 likes

#19

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

4953 likes

#20

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

3819 likes

#21

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

1586 likes

#22

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

2701 likes

#23

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

2466 likes

#24

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

2676 likes

#25

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

4692 likes

#26

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

4620 likes

#27

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

1521 likes

#28

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2625 likes

#29

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

2762 likes

#30

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

3620 likes

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