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#1

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16628 likes

#2

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9853 likes

#3

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: denial, honesty, truth

2709 likes

#4

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10960 likes

#5

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51615 likes

#6

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

5871 likes

#7

“I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.”
― Blake Crouch, The Last Town

77 likes

#8

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76555 likes

#9

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”
― Jeanne Duprau, The City of Ember

366 likes

#10

“Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know.”
― Gilly Macmillan, What She Knew

9 likes

#11

“If someone lies to you habitually, you can't ever trust them. It erodes relationships.”
― Gilly Macmillan, What She Knew

tags: trust

1 likes

#12

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6528 likes

#13

“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

792 likes

#14

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43899 likes

#15

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41006 likes

#16

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
― Mark Twain

tags: duty, golden-rule, twain

189 likes

#17

“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

tags: idiots

475 likes

#18

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
― Mark Twain

112 likes

#19

“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
― Mark Twain

tags: impossible

137 likes

#20

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
― Mark Twain

tags: life-lessons

205 likes

#21

“He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like people who like Jack Kerouac," he clarified.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

tags: dislike, jack-kerouac

2 likes

#22

“Nothing awful is without its beautiful side.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

38 likes

#23

“I don’t think God have us this anymore than he gives little kids cancer or makes poor people lottery winners.... if anything, he gives us courage to deal.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

tags: courage, fate, god

4 likes

#24

“Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him?”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

16 likes

#25

“Samantha: Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict. Just not normally on this sort of scale.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

4 likes

#26

“My husband hits me, Renata. Never on the face, of course. He's far too classy for that.
Does yours hit you? And if he does, and this is the question that really interests me: Do you hit back?”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

3 likes

#27

“there was something in your children that could bring out the child in yourself.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

2 likes

#28

“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”
― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

tags: boundaries, parenting

380 likes

#29

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

2325 likes

#30

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

3861 likes

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