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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: reading
547 people liked it

"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
— Alice Sebold

121 people liked it

"Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them."
— Alice Sebold

76 people liked it

"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

tags: geisha, love, memoirs, woman
41 people liked it

"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: death, life
331 people liked it

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
— John Steinbeck

174 people liked it

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

36 people liked it

"Death should take me while I am in the mood."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Blithedale Romance)

tags: death, humor
74 people liked it

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
— Anne Frank

tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
755 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,622 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,668 people liked it

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
— Charles Dickens

125 people liked it

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

tags: cities, tale, two
164 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,592 people liked it

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
667 people liked it

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational
2,401 people liked it

"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."
— Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends)

tags: how, many, much
427 people liked it

"If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!"
— Shel Silverstein

tags: poetry
367 people liked it

"Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before."
— Shel Silverstein

190 people liked it

"'why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
'Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?
Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?
Why do you scream when I do what I did?
Im a kid.'"
— Shel Silverstein (Falling Up)

tags: humor, poetry
45 people liked it

"So I'm all of love that could make it today."
— Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends)

48 people liked it

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
697 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
329 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
277 people liked it

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
89 people liked it

"I dwell in possibility…"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: possibility
84 people liked it

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

tags: art, haunted, house, nature
66 people liked it

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: dogs, poetry
90 people liked it

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!"
— Emily Dickinson

54 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
94 people liked it

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
54 people liked it

"A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: words
46 people liked it

"How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
25 people liked it

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
40 people liked it

"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to...to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry, words
21 people liked it

"We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: love
21 people liked it

"This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me"
— Emily Dickinson

45 people liked it

"Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it."
— Emily Dickinson

24 people liked it

"I can wade Grief --
Whole Pools of it --
I'm used to that --
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet --
And I tip -- drunken --
Let no Pebble -- smile --
'Twas the New Liquor --
That was all!"
— Emily Dickinson (Final Harvest: Poems)

14 people liked it

"The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS."
— Emily Dickinson

26 people liked it

"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility."
— Emily Dickinson

37 people liked it

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
113 people liked it

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."
— Emily Dickinson

11 people liked it

"Beauty is not caused. It is."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: beauty
33 people liked it

"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
— Emily Dickinson

59 people liked it

"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: celebrity
7 people liked it

"You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself."
— Emily Dickinson

5 people liked it

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

tags: bees, clover, happiness, lightheartedness, prairie, revery
4 people liked it

"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Cirrcuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
10 people liked it

"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies."
— Emily Dickinson (Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson)

tags: inspirational
12 people liked it

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