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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,695 people liked it

"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
17,765 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
14,368 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,967 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,893 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,172 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,620 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
7,210 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
6,043 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,286 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,627 people liked it

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: troubles
359 people liked it

"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
— Dr. Seuss

197 people liked it

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."
— E.M. Forster

tags: books
56 people liked it

"Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle."
— E.M. Forster (A Room With a View)

tags: muddle
11 people liked it

"If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run"
— E.M. Forster

10 people liked it

"Only connect!"
— E.M. Forster (Howards End)

tags: connect, connection
7 people liked it

"Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?"
— E.M. Forster

7 people liked it

"One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. "
— E.M. Forster

10 people liked it

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
— E.M. Forster

7 people liked it

"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."
— E.M. Forster (A Room With a View)

tags: friendship
5 people liked it

"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice."
— E.M. Forster (A Room with a View)

7 people liked it

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
— John Steinbeck

tags: writing
213 people liked it

"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

164 people liked it

"I guess there are never enough books."
— John Steinbeck

tags: books
64 people liked it

"You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?"
— John Steinbeck (Sweet Thursday)

48 people liked it

"It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row)

54 people liked it

"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

50 people liked it

"[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing."
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row)

16 people liked it

"When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

10 people liked it

"So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

6 people liked it

"You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

7 people liked it

"Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world."
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row; Sweet Thursday)

6 people liked it

"I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

11 people liked it

"Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning."
— John Steinbeck (Tortilla Flat)

7 people liked it

"It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

4 people liked it

"'He's got a can up there,' Richard said."
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row)

3 people liked it

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.
An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless.
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
— John Steinbeck

tags: deep
4 people liked it

"He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure."
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row)

2 people liked it

"Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
— John Steinbeck

9 people liked it

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: books, thought
209 people liked it

"I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting."
— Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)

8 people liked it

"Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl."
— Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)

tags: tea, teatime
2 people liked it

"I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year."
— E.M. Forster

12 people liked it

"I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult."
— E.M. Forster

tags: women
10 people liked it

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
— E.M. Forster

9 people liked it

"I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there."
— E.M. Forster (Where Angels Fear To Tread)

9 people liked it

"Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand."
— E.M. Forster

9 people liked it

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
— E.M. Forster

8 people liked it

"It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
— E.M. Forster (A Room With a View)

tags: love, romance
7 people liked it

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