Quotes - Ella Lin (ellalinr) (Tallinn, 01, Estonia) Showing 1-30 of 31

#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177234 likes

#2

“I'd much rather be someone's shot of whiskey than everyone's cup of tea.”
― Carrie Bradshaw

tags: love, tea, whiskey

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#3

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114390 likes

#4

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

49970 likes

#5

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#6

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48238 likes

#7

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16486 likes

#8

“Fake it 'till you make it.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

tags: inspirational

894 likes

#9

“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

788 likes

#10

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17570 likes

#11

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: live-in-the-moment

1492 likes

#12

“You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.”
― Sarah Kay

tags: emptiness, words

335 likes

#13

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151543 likes

#14

“You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies, not excuses.”
― Sarah Kay

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#15

“My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.”
― Sarah Kay

tags: self-confidence

119 likes

#16

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris

11870 likes

#17

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

6979 likes

#18

“In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Leviathan

tags: duality, hagbard-celine

159 likes

#19

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101585 likes

#20

“The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

tags: fame, internet

36 likes

#21

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

26175 likes

#22

“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

6988 likes

#23

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

1808 likes

#24

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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#25

“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

379 likes

#26

“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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#27

“You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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#28

“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

tags: books, people, reading

1896 likes

#29

“We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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#30

“Love is like farm work. It requires consistency, and imagination. Your body will ache and you will be fatigued, but there is no greater reward than seeing the fruits of your labor.”
― Hilarie Burton, The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm

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