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"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: dreams, life, time
111 people liked it

"One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel)

tags: family
107 people liked it

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: giving
113 people liked it

"There is no remedy for love, but to love more."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: love, remedy
95 people liked it

"Mothers are all slightly insane."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

101 people liked it

"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."
— Matt Groening

tags: humore
40 people liked it

""No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how." "
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

tags: kissing
98 people liked it

"This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence."
— Adrian Edmondson

tags: humor, violence, vyvyan
86 people liked it

"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart."
— William Faulkner

47 people liked it

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: comma, proofreading
69 people liked it

"We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: love
305 people liked it

"Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.""
— Shannon Hale

tags: books, genre, young_adult
80 people liked it

"It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys."
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

387 people liked it

"I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea."
— Nicholas Sparks

tags: love
212 people liked it

"Luke, I am your father"
— Darth Vader

tags: darth, jedi, sith, star, vader, wars
63 people liked it

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: adult, age
83 people liked it

"One day each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is important."
— Thomas S. Monson

67 people liked it

"Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. "
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

178 people liked it

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: inspirational, politics
122 people liked it

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
— George Carlin

tags: humor
345 people liked it

"All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints."
— David Sedaris (Holidays on Ice)

tags: identity, individuality
55 people liked it

"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

tags: courtroom, crime, drama
65 people liked it

"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

103 people liked it

"Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth."
— Anne Sexton

tags: intellect, love, poetry
81 people liked it

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
— Leo Tolstoy

73 people liked it

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

206 people liked it

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy"
— J.D. Salinger

tags: happiness
119 people liked it

"Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. "
— Elizabeth Stone

45 people liked it

"As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?'"
— Bill Bryson (The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America)

tags: cynicism, humor
95 people liked it

"They say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people."
— Eddie Izzard

tags: humor
134 people liked it

"Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!"
— Emily Brontë

tags: love
211 people liked it

"Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton."
— Don Roff

tags: humor, inspirational, writing
88 people liked it

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? "
— Scott Adams

61 people liked it

"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

128 people liked it

"'Whoever said the pen is mightier then the sword
obviously never encountered automatic weapons.'"
— Douglas MacArthur

tags: humor, military
94 people liked it

"Ice-cream is exquisite.
What a pity it isn't illegal."
— Voltaire

tags: food
65 people liked it

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "
— Ronald Reagan

tags: candy, character, dessert, food, jellybeans, snacks
75 people liked it

"An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

99 people liked it

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
— Kahlil Gibrán

102 people liked it

"I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites."
— Philip Pullman

tags: reading, writing
83 people liked it

"We are men of action. Lies do not become us."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: action, honor, lies, movie
88 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,136 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,016 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,745 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,481 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,786 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,386 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
2,987 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,631 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,882 people liked it

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