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#1

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

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

#2

“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

#3

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

4517 likes

#4

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

2863 likes

#5

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: adventure

1441 likes

#6

“...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: self-sacrifice, selflessness

1939 likes

#7

“Lies require commitment.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: lies

1126 likes

#8

“His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

371 likes

#9

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

tags: impossible

2666 likes

#10

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

tags: challenge, trap

2343 likes

#11

“لا أملك سوى مراقبة حياة الناس ، إنهم أحياء ، لكن ليس فيهم مس من عبقرية ، ينتابني غثيان من محدوديتهم ”
― هيفاء بيطار, غروب وكتابة

22 likes

#12

“لقد حاولت أن لا أؤذي أحدًا .. لكن الزمان كان مؤذيًا لنا جميعًا.”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, قمر على سمرقند

411 likes

#13

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

8520 likes

#14

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: evil, judgement, right

1208 likes

#15

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

tags: evil, fair-play, love

687 likes

#16

“beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average”
― Charles Bukowski

27 likes

#17

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

3190 likes

#18

“كان ولداً رقيقاً كخيط البكرة، تخلط أمه بينه وبين البيجاما أحياناً، وبينه وبين القميص أحياناً أخرى. البيجاما تلبسها بيجاما أخرى، وهو، تعلّقه في الخزانة، القميص ترسله إلى المدرسة، وهو، ترسله إلى المصبغة.
”
― بول شاوول

8 likes

#19

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

tags: brains, marriage

2125 likes

#20

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

2530 likes

#21

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

9763 likes

#22

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

tags: happiness, love

4708 likes

#23

“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: dreams

1308 likes

#24

“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: flight, flying

1311 likes

#25

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

2143 likes

#26

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

tags: grammar

1635 likes

#27

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

719 likes

#28

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

2615 likes

#29

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

9085 likes

#30

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, sadness

6574 likes

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