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"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
— Thomas More

tags: gardens, soul
8 people liked it

"We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole populations; but examples of wise social planning are not so easy to find."
— Thomas More (Utopia)

tags: philosophy, political, politics, utopia
4 people liked it

"Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse."
— Thomas More (Utopia)

tags: crime, philosophy, political, politics, punishment
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"Men be so foolish as to have delight and pleasure in the doubtful glistering of a trifling little stone, which may behold any of the stars or else the sun itself."
— Thomas More

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"This hellhound (pride) creepeth into men's hearts and plucketh them back from entering the right path of life and is so deeply rooted in men's breasts that she cannot be plucked out."
— Thomas More

2 people liked it

"The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance."
— Thomas More (Utopia)

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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
— Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

tags: afterlife, hell, morality, neutrality
60 people liked it

"Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.

Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."

"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
Seized him with my beautiful form
That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.

Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
took me so strongly with delight in him
That, as you see, it still abandons me not..."
— Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

tags: italian, italy, literature, love, medieval, poetry
26 people liked it

"There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.

Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
- Inferno (V, 121),"
— Dante (Inferno (Modern Library Series) - translated by John Ciardi)

tags: À, dante, du, italian, la, medieval, nostalgia, perdu, poetry, recherche, temps
24 people liked it

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
— Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso)

18 people liked it

"Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift."
— Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

tags: faith, fate, fear
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"As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force."
— Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

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"The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream."
— Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso)

tags: 50, canto, inferno, xxiv
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"In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost."
— Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

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"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: inspirational, women
185 people liked it

"And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

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"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

16 people liked it

"It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played
again."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

12 people liked it

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

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"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

9 people liked it

"...one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

6 people liked it

"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: earth, sun
4 people liked it

"Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love."
— Andrew Davidson (The Gargoyle)

tags: accident, love, unsuspecting
18 people liked it

"You have said that it takes so much for me to believe anything, but I do believe. I believe in your love for me. I believe in my love for you. I believe that every remaining beat of my heart belongs to you, and I believe that when I finally leave this world, my last breath will carry your name. I believe that my final word -Marianne- will be all I need to know that my life was good and full and worthy, and I believe that our love will last forever. "
— Andrew Davidson (The Gargoyle)

tags: love
11 people liked it

""You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent""
— Andrew Davidson (The Gargoyle)

7 people liked it

"Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

20 people liked it

"Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

tags: accident, gasoline, kiss, rainbow
22 people liked it

"Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

16 people liked it

""These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. "
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

tags: death, inspirational, life
12 people liked it

"This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one"
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

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"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
17,736 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,333 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
11,727 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,254 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,871 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
10,095 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,677 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
6,674 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,391 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
6,080 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,156 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,853 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,336 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,626 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,423 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,322 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,324 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,236 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,255 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,155 people liked it

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