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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,754 people liked it

"For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: writing
83 people liked it

"Always be a poet, even in prose."
— Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing
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"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: writing
169 people liked it

"Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: destiny, rilke, tapestry
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"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

tags: poetry
419 people liked it

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

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"I live my life in widening circles That reach out across the world."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God)

tags: inspirational, life
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"Every angel is terrifying."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

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"The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
— Marcus Aurelius

tags: beauty, life, stars
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
— Marcus Aurelius

tags: happiness
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."
— Marcus Aurelius

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"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
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"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
— Henry David Thoreau

219 people liked it

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau

152 people liked it

"One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspiration, summer
100 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,773 people liked it

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
835 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
12,296 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,615 people liked it

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational
277 people liked it

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: best
118 people liked it

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: scars, souls, suffering
180 people liked it

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

106 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
— Confucius

tags: success
179 people liked it

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
— Confucius

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"You cannot open a book without learning something."
— Confucius

tags: learning, philosopher, quotes
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"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. "
— Confucius

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"Be the change you want to see in the world"
— Mahatma Ghandi

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

tags: books, soul
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
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"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato

tags: philosophy
324 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,036 people liked it

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
— George Harrison

tags: beatles, direction, roads, travel
102 people liked it

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dark, stars
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, life
370 people liked it

"And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor -
And this, and so much more? -"
— T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems)

tags: poetry, prufrock
17 people liked it

"We cannot do great things - we can only do small things with great love."
— Mother Theresa

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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,131 people liked it

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

tags: books, soul
104 people liked it

"...a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction... "
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

19 people liked it

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

27 people liked it

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
— Virginia Woolf

13 people liked it

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