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#1

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

19560 likes

#2

“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

2671 likes

#3

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

85200 likes

#4

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: realist

3667 likes

#5

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

6287 likes

#6

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, qotd

3086 likes

#7

“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
― Charles de Lint, Moonheart

tags: qotd, wonders

1775 likes

#8

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

3332 likes

#9

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

tags: silence, voice

2533 likes

#10

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

tags: inspirational-life

2291 likes

#11

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

4290 likes

#12

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

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#13

“يا الله كم من العبوديات ترتكب باسم الله”
― ثروت الخرباوي, سر المعبد: الأسرار الخفية لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين

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#14

“وذات يوم سيعلمون أن الإسلام هو الحب”
― ثروت الخرباوي, سر المعبد: الأسرار الخفية لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين

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#15

“أول الطريق لمعرفة الله هو الحرية.”
― ثروت الخرباوي, سر المعبد: الأسرار الخفية لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين

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#16

“سيرغمك الحب على ان تحبهم لانك انسان و قد خلق الله الانسان لكى يحب فاذا زادوا فى كراهيتهم زد فى حبك و ذات يوم سيعلمون ان الاسلام هو الحب.”
― ثروت الخرباوي, سر المعبد: الأسرار الخفية لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين

6 likes

#17

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17102 likes

#18

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

2499 likes

#19

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7679 likes

#20

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

4205 likes

#21

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

3548 likes

#22

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29748 likes

#23

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

3936 likes

#24

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

5450 likes

#25

“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

101710 likes

#26

“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

48254 likes

#27

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50610 likes

#28

“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.”
― Francis S. Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

tags: arrogance, biology, dna, hubris, human-genome, ignorance, junk-dna, knowledge, pride, science

23 likes

#29

“Yeah, it’s true we’re all dealt a set of cards. But it’s also true that it’s up to us to figure out how to play the hand.”
― Francis S. Collins

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#30

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

2061 likes

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