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#1

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love

4783 likes

#2

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

2012 likes

#3

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

1335 likes

#4

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: inspirational-humor

1380 likes

#5

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis

1926 likes

#6

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88109 likes

#7

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

12725 likes

#8

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26995 likes

#9

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

1714 likes

#10

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

1339 likes

#11

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: writing

1428 likes

#12

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

3932 likes

#13

“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
― Alfred de Musset

1159 likes

#14

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

22517 likes

#15

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

2487 likes

#16

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: opportunity, perseverance, wisdom

1408 likes

#17

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

1334 likes

#18

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

1426 likes

#19

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

847 likes

#20

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

5866 likes

#21

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5547 likes

#22

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

9133 likes

#23

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

1167 likes

#24

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

tags: books, readers, reading

991 likes

#25

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: new-beginnings

1060 likes

#26

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: rainer-maria-rilke