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#1

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

#2

“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

tags: happiness, inspirational, miss-marple

78 likes

#3

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12936 likes

#4

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: baths, deeds, depression

2066 likes

#5

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

tags: past

2605 likes

#6

“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: humor

3692 likes

#7

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

6527 likes

#8

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

tags: readers-and-writers

1857 likes

#9

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

6409 likes

#10

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

14017 likes

#11

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

2891 likes

#12

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

3159 likes

#13

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy

1345 likes

#14

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

1842 likes

#15

“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: inspirational, purpose, truth

327 likes

#16

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

4467 likes

#17

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13153 likes

#18

“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

1651 likes

#19

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

4084 likes

#20

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

tags: love, weirdness

21580 likes

#21

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62233 likes

#22

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

4683 likes

#23

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

1878 likes

#24

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

3252 likes

#25

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1150 likes

#26

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37365 likes

#27

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

tags: attitude, inspirational

2350 likes

#28

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

3854 likes

#29

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16171 likes

#30

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

3136 likes

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