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#1

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

#2

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

tags: echo, words

1148 likes

#3

“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

9012 likes

#4

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

2178 likes

#5

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

1552 likes

#6

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

2394 likes

#7

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6086 likes

#8

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7873 likes

#9

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

4382 likes

#10

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

3094 likes

#11

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

2261 likes

#12

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

2241 likes

#13

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7687 likes

#14

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality

2059 likes

#15

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

1967 likes

#16

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

2279 likes

#17

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

3225 likes

#19

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

3265 likes

#20

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

2571 likes

#21

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3491 likes

#22

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2427 likes

#23

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry, truth

1476 likes

#24

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

2803 likes

#25

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

1051 likes

#26

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

1035 likes

#27

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1354 likes

#28

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

2442 likes

#29

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

1712 likes

#30

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

2621 likes

#31

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8467 likes

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