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"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly."
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

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"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you´re alive it isn´t.~~~~ "
— Richard Bach

24 people liked it

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
— Richard Bach

31 people liked it

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
— Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)

23 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
6,205 people liked it

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: compassion, justice, mercy
813 people liked it

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
973 people liked it

"Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for?

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay
526 people liked it

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...

- Frodo to Sam"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: adventure
478 people liked it

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness
473 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
369 people liked it

"... in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

tags: hope, inspirational
187 people liked it

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: fantasy
130 people liked it

"Little by little, one travels far"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

102 people liked it

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. "
— Annie Dillard

81 people liked it

"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."
— Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

14 people liked it

"I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames."
— Annie Dillard

8 people liked it

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
— Arthur C. Clarke

16 people liked it

"For if not true, they are well imagined..."
— Arthur C. Clarke

4 people liked it

"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
— Arthur C. Clarke (2010: Odyssey Two)

tags: maturity, youth
7 people liked it

"I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical."
— Arthur C. Clarke

10 people liked it

"Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity."
— Arthur C. Clarke (2061)

tags: ergonomics
2 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch
181 people liked it

"I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!"
— Stephen King (Needful Things)

38 people liked it

"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
— Stephen King

79 people liked it

"Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."
— Stephen King (The Green Mile)

32 people liked it

"People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

tags: ethisc
7 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,787 people liked it

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: malice, stupidity
337 people liked it

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: a-, heinlein, humor, robert
158 people liked it

"Once a month, some women act like men act all the time."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: character, lazarus, long, pms
50 people liked it

"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable"
— Robert A. Heinlein

27 people liked it

"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense."
— Robert A. Heinlein

30 people liked it

"Budget the luxuries first."
— Robert A. Heinlein

14 people liked it

"Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!"
— Robert A. Heinlein

17 people liked it

"We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: p-193, siasl, stranger
7 people liked it

"None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

350 people liked it

"In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?"
— Anne Rice

tags: hell, love
89 people liked it

"And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. (John 1)"
— Anne Rice (Vittorio: The Vampire)

10 people liked it

"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
9,230 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,169 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,847 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,015 people liked it

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