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"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Lathe of Heaven)

tags: love
254 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,604 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
333 people liked it

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe
406 people liked it

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, joy
233 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,977 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,239 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,526 people liked it

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: better, empathy, life
337 people liked it

"Perhaps it it our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!"
— Jane Austen (Emma)

180 people liked it

"My idea of good company. . . is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation."
— Jane Austen

80 people liked it

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs"
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: eyre, jane
107 people liked it

"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

8 people liked it

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
— Ray Bradbury

190 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,294 people liked it

"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness."
— Pearl S. Buck

59 people liked it

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
— Daphne du Maurier

tags: happiness
41 people liked it

"Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast."
— P.D. James (The Children of Men)

7 people liked it

"I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts."
— P.D. James

4 people liked it

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

tags: kindness
651 people liked it

"I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. "
— Henry James

2 people liked it

"Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact."
— Henry James

tags: inspirational, life
7 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
699 people liked it

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

tags: dogs, poetry
91 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

"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

"There is no Frigate like a book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry..."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: books, reading
58 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
54 people liked it

"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson

60 people liked it

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

tags: beauty
33 people liked it

"Frankly, I don't give a damn.

-Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

tags: butler, rhett
102 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

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

tags: life
1,237 people liked it

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

338 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

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,152 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

371 people liked it

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

197 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
663 people liked it

"Brevity is the Soul of wit."
— William Shakespeare

95 people liked it

"The earth has music for those who listen."
— William Shakespeare

tags: nature
174 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

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
— Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie)

tags: humor, inspirational
17 people liked it

"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."
— Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire)

17 people liked it

"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."
— Tennessee Williams

tags: friendship
29 people liked it

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
— Tennessee Williams

8 people liked it

"You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it."
— Tennessee Williams

tags: life, money
8 people liked it

"The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire."
— Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point)

tags: behavior, idea, setting, social, trends
5 people liked it

"Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
— Malcolm Gladwell

tags: decisions
12 people liked it

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