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"Life is short...eat desert first!"
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

3 people liked it

"We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed."
— Ken Kesey

1 person liked it

"We don't stop playing when we grow old, we grow old when we stop playing."
— George Bernard Shaw

1 person liked it

"The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2 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
7,188 people liked it

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

tags: emotions, feelings
765 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
695 people liked it

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

336 people liked it

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Now, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and have their shoes. "
— Frieda Norris

1 person 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
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,174 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
6,162 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
5,547 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,258 people liked it

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

tags: reading
2,950 people liked it

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

tags: body, soul
3,325 people liked it

"Whoever said nothing is impossible has obviously never tried to slam a revolving door."
— A.S.

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"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
— Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)

tags: life
32 people liked it

"Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: chapter, eighteen
28 people liked it

"I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse"
— Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)

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"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: friends, friendship, together, together-in-spirit, true-friends
93 people liked it

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
135 people liked it

"If at first you secede, destroy all the evidence that you ever tried. "
— Phoebe McKeeby

3 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,328 people liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,683 people liked it

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life
225 people liked it

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: death, love, movies
1,151 people liked it

"Dread Pirate Roberts: Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

74 people liked it

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
623 people liked it

"The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it."
— John Keats

1 person liked it

"Most of the shadows in this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 person liked it

"The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing."
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

6 people liked it

"A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."

The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"

The old man replied simply, "The one you feed."
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

tags: inspirational
75 people liked it

"Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
"All the time.""
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

tags: always, dd, fink, flotsam, funny, humor, i, jeremy, jetsam, keys, lizzy, mass, right, think, true, wendy, what
168 people liked it

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

tags: books, reading
847 people liked it

"They see her lips moving when she is all alone and they may think that she is muttering crazy, witchy thoughtd, but I know that she is singing."
— Kimberly K. Jones (Sand Dollar Summer)

1 person 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
11,690 people liked it

"I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet an fragrant, between it's leaves. "
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island)

4 people liked it

"It's not what the world holds for, it's what bring to it. "
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

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""Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting"
— Natalie Babbitt

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"Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thush, too.
And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. Thats the way it's suppose to be. That's the way it is.
If we didn't move it out ourself, it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That's what us Tucks are, Winnie.
We ain't part of the wheel anymore."
— Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)

4 people liked it

"So what? All writers are lunatics!"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

tags: humor, writing
234 people liked it

"Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

496 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,589 people liked it

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
— Rick Riordan

tags: art, artist, painting, poem, poet, poetry
107 people liked it

"Imagination is a gift. Don't waste it!"
— Jeanne Warnes

32 people liked it

"All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby)

tags: emergence
19 people liked it

"The only realism in art is of the imagination."
— William Carlos Williams

tags: chapter-1, other-prose, samuel-butler
3 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,510 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,426 people liked it

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