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#1

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: crying, inspirational, sorrow

1550 likes

#2

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18228 likes

#3

“The ones that hurt the most always say the least.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

187 likes

#4

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16126 likes

#5

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

2154 likes

#6

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1627 likes

#7

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

2791 likes

#8

“Ultimately what remains is a story. In the end, it’s the only thing any of us really owns.”
― Carole Radziwill, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

9 likes

#9

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: book-burning, death, germany, holocaust, literature, murder, ww2

55 likes

#10

“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

103 likes

#11

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
― Thornton Wilder

tags: epitaph, gratitude

371 likes

#12

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: experience, karma

1355 likes

#13

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8475 likes

#14

“being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

56 likes

#15

“All that rescues us is love.”
― Edward Hirsch, On Love: Poems

18 likes

#16

“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

158 likes

#17

“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”
― Pema Chodron

15 likes

#18

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928

1108 likes

#19

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6885 likes

#20

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: apothegm, optimism

5024 likes

#21

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

1620 likes

#22

“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.”
― Joseph Brodsky

27 likes

#23

“As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: inspirational-quotes

70 likes

#24

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reality

8426 likes

#25

“The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

tags: darkness, poetry, sorrow

822 likes

#26

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: inspirational

279 likes

#27

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
― Francis Bacon

208 likes

#28

“It is impossible to love and be wise.”
― Francis Bacon

144 likes

#29