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#1

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

#2

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

tags: happiness

1176 likes

#3

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

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

21822 likes

#4

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

tags: books, reading

255 likes

#5

“And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

369 likes

#6

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

1146 likes

#7

“Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

321 likes

#8

“Man muss die Originalität des eigenen Lebens infrage stellen wenn es sich mit den Zeilen eines Rocksongs perfekt umschreiben lässt.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe

4 likes

#10

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32149 likes

#11

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

1261 likes

#12

“Nur wer erwachsen wird und ein Kind bleibt, ist ein Mensch.”
― Erich Kästner

97 likes

#13

“I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

597 likes

#14

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
― Nick Hornby

tags: films, music, relationships

3000 likes

#15

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: life, love

772 likes

#16

“Doors are for people with no imagination.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

tags: creativity

1237 likes

#17

“Now, where did I leave my time-machine? Oh I know, next Wednesday.”
― Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller

14 likes

#18

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

24270 likes

#19

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: happiness, rightness

2390 likes

#20

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran

3727 likes

#21

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2799 likes

#22

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

584 likes

#23

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

1691 likes

#24

“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

tags: books, literature, untold-stories

177 likes

#25

“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

tags: inspirational

110 likes

#26