Hope Hopkins's favorite quotes

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead)

tags: happiness, man, trouble

145 people liked it

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."
— Nora Ephron

20 people liked it

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
— Sigmund Freud

30 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

9,551 people liked it

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
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— Simone de Beauvoir

10 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul

11,388 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational

3,263 people liked it

"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
— George Plimpton

14 people liked it

"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational, right

437 people liked it

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance

368 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter

18,653 people liked it

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion

425 people liked it

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul

378 people liked it

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion

214 people liked it

"Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
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— Chris Rock

84 people liked it

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
— Golda Meir

tags: funny, golda, meir, true

190 people liked it

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