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"Somewhere the zebra is dancing.
~Enzo~
from
The Art of Racing in the Rain"
— Garth Stein

tags: fiction
3 people liked it

"That which you manifest is before you - Enzo
The Art of Racing in the Rain"
— Garth Stein

tags: fiction
2 people liked it

"When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.
Almondine
from
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
"
— David Wroblewski

tags: fiction
2 people liked it

""Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace." "
— Frederick Buechner

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"There is no one right way to live."
— Daniel Quinn (Ishmael)

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"People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. "
— Anne Tyler

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"...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales."
— Alice Hoffman (The River King)

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"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

tags: life
60 people liked it

"The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep."
— Alice Hoffman

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"People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?"
— Alice Hoffman (The Ice Queen)

25 people liked it

"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say."
— Alice Hoffman

tags: books, reading
8 people liked it

"That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination."
— Alice Hoffman

11 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,351 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,658 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,548 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,025 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
6,550 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,951 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,830 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,744 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,119 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,213 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
5,999 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,266 people liked it

"There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."
— Bernhard Schlink

tags: redemption
15 people liked it

"Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily."
— Bernhard Schlink - The Reader

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"Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere."
— Bernhard Schlink (The Reader)

7 people liked it

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

219 people liked it

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

150 people liked it

"This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: love
142 people liked it

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things,and only the wise can see them."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: wisdom
110 people liked it

"That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: page-150
95 people liked it

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

95 people liked it

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

87 people liked it

"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: fear
78 people liked it

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

85 people liked it

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

137 people liked it

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: inspirational
732 people liked it

"There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose."
— Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)

tags: honor, inspiration
29 people liked it

"That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves"
— Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)

tags: destiny, ignorance
30 people liked it

"Somewhere the zebra is dancing."
— Garth Stein

tags: humor
13 people liked it

"To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to."
— Garth Stein

tags: inspirational
11 people liked it

"That which you manifest is before you."
— Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)

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