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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,835 people liked it

"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading
578 people liked it

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: books, library, reading
1,508 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,673 people liked it

"It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me."
— Marisa de los Santos (Belong to Me: A Novel)

tags: humor, women
32 people liked it

"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: horse-riding
21 people liked it

"In riding a horse, we borrow freedom"
— Helen Thompson

17 people liked it

"A horse is God's gift to mankind."
— Arabian Proverb

6 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,330 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,862 people liked it

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: love
908 people liked it

"We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace."
— Peggy Tabor Millin

13 people liked it

"Certum est, quia impossible est."
— Tertullian

1 person liked it

"Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit."
— Christopher Marlowe

5 people liked it

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
99 people liked it

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. "
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
89 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
627 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
849 people liked it

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
— Winston S. Churchill

72 people liked it

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: language
62 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,756 people liked it

"Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.'"
— Justina Chen Headley (North of Beautiful)

11 people liked it

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
— Groucho Marx

204 people liked it

"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."
— Jillian Michaels (Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!)

4 people liked it

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
— A.A. Milne

153 people liked it

"Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

74 people liked it

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
— A. A. Milne

24 people liked it

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
145 people liked it

"Fuck Tolstoy. Life is too short to read the Russians."
— Laura Moore

tags: humor, literature
3 people liked it

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible)

tags: science, technology
159 people liked it

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