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#1

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
― Jacques Cousteau

#2

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

tags: nature, ocean

243 likes

#3

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”
― Jacques Cousteau

126 likes

#4

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

tags: humor

22515 likes

#5

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

7216 likes

#6

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

6370 likes

#7

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

6538 likes

#8

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

tags: death, love

5570 likes

#9

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

5106 likes

#10

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

4428 likes

#11

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: love

4931 likes

#12

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

3645 likes

#13

“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

64646 likes

#14

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

13074 likes

#15

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

tags: reality

8429 likes

#16

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

8286 likes

#17

“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. ”
― Jim Harrison

177 likes

#18

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
― Scott Adams

tags: creativity

621 likes

#19

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

4374 likes

#20

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing

2044 likes

#21

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

84285 likes

#22

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: humour, life

1195 likes

#23

“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: enemies, explanations, friends

708 likes

#24

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: inspirational

208 likes

#25

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
― Albert Einstein

915 likes

#26

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to the Earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction -- up, down, sideways -- by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
― Jaques Barzun Cousteau

10 likes

#27

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21823 likes

#28

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel

6328 likes

#29

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

4032 likes

#30

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

3988 likes

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