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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
420 people liked it

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
273 people liked it

"Real love never fails."
— Karen Kingsbury (Forever)

tags: inspirational
10 people liked it

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

14 people liked it

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

21 people liked it

"I had never given much thought to how I would die. But dying in the place of someone I love, seemed like a good way to go. - Bella Swan"
— Stephenie Meyer

74 people liked it

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
5,599 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,785 people liked it

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dreams, life
2,097 people liked it

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: death, live, love
619 people liked it

"That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit."
— Louisa May Alcott

39 people liked it

"Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

2 people liked it

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

3 people liked it

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
— James Joyce

16 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,321 people liked it

"We shouldn't teach great books;
we should teach a love of reading."
— B.F. Skinner

12 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
14,658 people liked it

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