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#1

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

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

8468 likes

#2

“Only in chaos are we conceivable.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

158 likes

#3

“la quale fue chiamata da molti Beatrice li quali non sapeano che si chiamare.”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

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#4

“And I did see, self-seeing, her in all things visible.”
― Ibn Al-Farid, The Poem of the Way

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#5

“When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind.”
― Nanao Sakaki, Break the Mirror

tags: inspirational, pain

5 likes

#6

“Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.”
― Boris Vian, L'écume des jours

tags: favourite-quotes

57 likes

#7

“I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,

The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!”
― Hafez, The Divan

171 likes

#8

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2205 likes

#9

“To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

34 likes

#10

“A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn’t a Buddha. Don’t think about Buddhas.”
― Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

tags: buddha, buddhism, mind, zen

6 likes

#11

“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

136 likes

#12

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

8378 likes

#13

“Thus you may understand that love alone
is the true seed of every merit in you,
and of all acts for which you must atone.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

112 likes

#14

“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: macondo, melquiades

682 likes

#15

“There's no tyrant like a brain. ”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

267 likes

#16

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7384 likes

#17

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

2746 likes

#18

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

tags: humor, idleness, inspirational

5377 likes

#19

“لیلی بودم، ولیک اکنون
مجنون ترم از هزار مجنون”
― Nizami Ganjavi, Layla and Majnun

tags: عشق

33 likes

#20

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: apothegm, beauty, truth

2300 likes

#21

“The vultures will make sculptures out of our flesh.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

tags: activism, palestine

1 likes

#22

“If you have time to chatter,
Read books.

If you have time to read,
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

If you have time to walk,
Sing songs and dance.

If you have time to dance,
Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.”
― Nanao Sakaki

tags: japanese-poets, serenity, spirituality

141 likes

#23

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

2609 likes

#24

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

886 likes

#25

“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

167 likes

#26

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

2871 likes

#27

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
― Jack London

tags: bluffing, making-do, poker

587 likes

#28

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: inspirational

916 likes

#29

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety

1917 likes

#30

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth

3942 likes

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