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#1

“If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.”
― Harry A. Overstreet

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#2

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

tags: action, happiness, motivational, work

1224 likes

#3

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
― William James

220 likes

#4

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

tags: books, friendship

4243 likes

#5

“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

tags: art, dedication, talent

257 likes

#6

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

3023 likes

#7

“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud”
― Carl Sandburg

91 likes

#8

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: humor

118 likes

#9

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen

2043 likes

#10

“Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

tags: change, entropy, fantasy, taoism

417 likes

#11

“I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: dreams, nothingness

834 likes

#12

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

2601 likes

#13

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: fame, poetry

1118 likes

#15

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
― Emily Dickinson

867 likes

#16

“I tasted life.”
― Emily Dickenson

170 likes

#17

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
― Emily Dickinson

176 likes

#18

“The brain is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.”
― Emily Dickinson

102 likes

#19

“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”
― Emily Dickinson

100 likes

#20

“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, love, reality, relationships

1218 likes

#21

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

tags: life, privacy, public-image, secrecy

896 likes

#22

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

6786 likes

#23

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
― Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories

900 likes

#24

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: archeology, growing-older, marriage

854 likes

#25

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

tags: fools

448 likes

#26

“Time is the best killer.”
― Agatha Christie

381 likes

#27

“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

tags: love

400 likes

#28

“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: acceptance, death-and-dying, serenity

383 likes

#29

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

tags: age, old

324 likes

#30

“Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

308 likes

#31

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: inspirational

247 likes

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