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"Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink."
— Haruki Murakami (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World)

tags: whiskey
26 people liked it

"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."
— Haruki Murakami

32 people liked it

"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

tags: memories
255 people liked it

"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: expectation
33 people liked it

"Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]"
— Haruki Murakami (The Elephant Vanishes: Stories)

12 people liked it

"Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about."
— Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

tags: japanese
14 people liked it

"If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far."
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)

8 people liked it

"Mañana lloverá porque un oso polar se ha comido las estrellas."
— Haruki Murakami

3 people liked it

"..."most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories""
— Haruki Murakami

5 people liked it

"Nuestra existencia es una sucesión de instantes aprisionados entre el <<todo>> que queda a nuestra espalda y la <<nada>> que tenemos delante."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: carnero, caza, del, salvaje
3 people liked it

"Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off."
— Haruki Murakami

1 person liked it

"El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo podemos imaginárnoslo mirando la forma de las cosas que, de vez en cuando, suben a la superficie."
— Haruki Murakami

2 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,053 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
2,866 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
2,972 people liked it

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall."
— Roald Dahl

tags: humor
477 people liked it

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
— Anne Frank (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl)

tags: hope, human, nature
450 people liked it

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
— Maya Angelou

483 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
413 people liked it

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
— Maya Angelou

tags: people
475 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
513 people liked it

"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd, atheism, humor
373 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)

383 people liked it

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
407 people liked it

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

353 people liked it

"Te amo como se aman ciertas cosa oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
(I love you as certain darks things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.)"
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
375 people liked it

"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear."
— Lemony Snicket (The Carnivorous Carnival)

tags: humor, miracles
340 people liked it

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

tags: friendship, inspirational
374 people liked it

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
256 people liked it

"You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange."
— Milan Kundera

tags: love
386 people liked it

"Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!"
— Emily Brontë

tags: love
212 people liked it

"To measure the man, measure his heart."
— Malcolm Forbes

tags: character, love, regard
6 people liked it

"Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

tags: love
5 people liked it

"Have you ever loved someone so much that when you drew a breath you knew it was his?"
— Barbara Boyer (Courage of Fear)

tags: inspirational, love
5 people liked it

""Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again. There lives on this earth a woman who can be my friend and my lover. Do you understand that? Do you understand what a marvelous thing that is?"

"A friend is a friend," Uthman interrupted, "and a woman is a woman. You can't have them in one person. The whole world knows that."

"If that's what the whole world knows, ...then the whole world is wrong. I believed the whole world, and I lost her.""
— Barbara Cohen (Seven Daughters and Seven Sons)

tags: friendship, love, wife, woman, women
12 people liked it

"Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!"
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

tags: heart, love, marriage, passion
4 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,109 people liked it

"You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Light That Failed)

tags: life, love
5 people liked it

"Choose your love. Love your choice."
— Thomas S. Monson

tags: choices-, love
134 people liked it

"What happens in the heart, simply happens"
— Ted Hughes

tags: love
7 people liked it

"Time has no meaning,
Love will endure.."
— Jude Deveraux

tags: love, patience, time
24 people liked it

"For who could ever learn to love a beast"
— Beauty and the Beast

tags: love
13 people liked it

"My soul is in your hands."
"Your soul is safe in my hands and in my heart."
— Ann Marston (Kingmaker's Sword)

tags: love
9 people liked it

"I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close."
— Mark Andrus

tags: inspirational
66 people liked it

"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?'"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: love, power
57 people liked it

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
— Josh Billings

tags: animals, dogs
89 people liked it

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
342 people liked it

"Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art."
— Constantin Stanislavski (My Life in Art)

tags: art, inspirational, theatre
22 people liked it

"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
— Edmond De Goncourt

tags: art
14 people liked it

"A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw."
— Robert Henri

tags: art
5 people liked it

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