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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: pride, reading, writers
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: reading
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #8
    Ally Condie
    “Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: fantasy
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  • #9
    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: hope, inevitability, spring
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  • #10
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
    tags: hope, imagination, inspirational
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    Linda Olsson
    “Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then also look for it carefully. Don't allow it to slip between your fingers. Sometimes, good things come to us in a such a quiet fashion. And nothing comes complete. It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. What we choose to see, what we choose to save. And what we choose to remember. Never forget that all the love in your life is there, inside you, always.”
    ― Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika
    tags: decisions, instinct, risk, trust
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    Linda Olsson
    “But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them.”
    ― Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika
    tags: comfort, gratitude, kindness
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    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “Trangen til å lese tok meg og holdt meg i sitt deilige, berusende grep. Jo mer jeg leste, desto mer hungret jeg. Hvert verk var rikt på løfter; hver side jeg bladde om, var en eventyrferd, tiltrekning fra en annen verden.”
    ― Tatiana de Rosnay, The House I Loved
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: courage, inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    Rabih Alameddine
    “I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.”
    ― Rabih Alameddine, Koolaids: The Art of War
    tags: chaos, denial, existentialism, life, repression, sanity
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    Meher Baba
    “The book that I shall make people read
    is the book of the heart,
    which holds the key
    to the mystery of life”
    ― Meher Baba
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    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
    tags: wisdom
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    E. Lockhart
    “Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk”
    ― E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
    tags: friendship, funny, sweet, true
    102 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: dogs, humor, religion
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    Mike Resnick
    “You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma.

    "I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods," answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six ahead of you."

    "It makes you a pagan."

    "It makes you a man of limited vision," said Argyle.”
    ― Mike Resnick, The Outpost
    tags: religion
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: writing-life
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    Randy Pausch
    “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: advice, last-lecture, life, randy-pausch
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    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: experience
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  • #30
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
    6530 likes



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