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#1

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, humor, love

631 likes

#2

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: destiny, self-determination

2600 likes

#3

“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: homecoming

934 likes

#4

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: thinking

7714 likes

#5

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

3708 likes

#6

“The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

49 likes

#7

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

10216 likes

#8

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

5200 likes

#9

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

2037 likes

#10

“I had always liked the act of leaving, the expanse between departure and arrival when you’re seemingly nowhere, defined by another kind of time.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

39 likes

#11

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

tags: art, love

9015 likes

#12

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: death, fear, inspirational

2018 likes

#13

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

2956 likes

#14

“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
― Sylvia Plath

935 likes

#15

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

11055 likes

#16

“It's really hard to put into words things that are just a little bit not okay.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

81 likes

#17

“He fit so perfectly in the love story I'd imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

614 likes

#18

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: fear-unknown

8474 likes

#19

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

458 likes

#20

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

2465 likes

#21

“It’s comforting to think the defect is mine, because that means it is under my power.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

tags: abuse, control

1 likes

#22

“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
― Emily Haines

8 likes

#23

“Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

245 likes

#24

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50621 likes

#25

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

tags: confidence, inspirational, pride

1059 likes

#26

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering

765 likes

#27

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
― Michel de Montaigne

215 likes

#28

“Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: books-reading

178 likes

#29

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars

5317 likes

#30

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2075 likes

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