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#1

“Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

tags: books

1180 likes

#2

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, dreams

1530 likes

#3

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

tags: books, peace, people, reading, world

1660 likes

#4

“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: books

859 likes

#5

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
― Walter H. Cottingham

tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased

520 likes

#6

“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Wei Hui

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#7

“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: intelligence

376 likes

#8

“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
― Akira Kurosawa

271 likes

#9

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9528 likes

#10

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
― Albert Camus

tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep

955 likes

#11

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: sleep

607 likes

#12

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6986 likes

#13

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9015 likes

#14

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: friendship

5425 likes

#15

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13390 likes

#16

“The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.”
― Jasper Sole

tags: compassion, misanthropy

46 likes

#17

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

11837 likes

#18

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: funny, funny-but-true, hell, humor, introversion, introvert, introverts, parties, party, partying, people, saints, social, socializing

706 likes

#19

“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: acceptance, discrimination, maurice, novel, outcast, pariah, rejection

109 likes

#20

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

tags: poetry, science, stars

3430 likes

#21

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth

2021 likes

#22

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: humour, science, wisdom

1749 likes

#23

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

1767 likes

#24

“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.

Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: science

650 likes

#25

“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aggravating, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, aplomb, assertive, assertiveness, assured, at-ease, bashful, bashfulness, boldness, bothersome, can-do, confident, coolheaded, courage, coyness, cursed, demureness, diffidence, diffident, embarrassed, embarrassment, exasperating, extrovert, extroverted, farouche, funny, galling, girl, girls, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, imperturbable, infuriating, inhibited, insecure, introversion, introvert, introverted, irksome, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, lack-of-confidence, levelheaded, maddening, man, men, mettle, mousiness, mousy, nerve, nervous, nettlesome, obnoxious, pesky, phlegm, phlegmatic, poise, poised, positive, quotations, quotes, repressed, reserve, reserved, reservedness, reticence, reticent, retiring, satire, self-assurance, self-assured, self-confidence, self-confident, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-effacing, self-possessed, self-possession, self-reliant, sheepish, sheepishness, shy, shyness, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, tiresome, together, troublesome, trying, unconfident, unperturbed, unruffled, vexatious, vexing, withdrawn

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#26

“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: atheism, religion, science

515 likes

#27

“I am a sailor, you're my first mate
We signed on together, we coupled our fate
Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail
For the heart's treasure, together we set sail
With no maps to guide us, we steered our own course
Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force
Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope
Working together, we learned how to cope.
Life is an ocean and love it a boat
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat
When we started the voyage there was just me and you
Now gathered round us we have our own crew
Together we're in this relationship
We built it with care to last the whole trip
Our true destination's not marked on any chart
We're navigating the shores of the heart”
― John McDermott

tags: heart, love, ocean, ship

112 likes

#28

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93567 likes

#29

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

58070 likes

#30

“When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Boating for Beginners

tags: life, navigation

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