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"Just because you can, does not mean your should (or have to!)!

--Grandmothers Bible"
— Tessa Silvas

tags: inspirational
2 people liked it

"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.â€ "
— Jane Austen

23 people liked it

"I simply love... celery root. "
— Jane Austen (Emma)

tags: elton, mr-
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,584 people liked it

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: inspirational, ship, storms
228 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,866 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,341 people liked it

"If you don't have time to do it right the 1st time then you must have time to do it over"
— Jocelyn Dixon

tags: lazy, wisdom, work
14 people liked it

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
— Robert Frost

tags: poetry
265 people liked it

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
— Kahlil GibrÃ¡n

tags: philosophy, poetry
348 people liked it

"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
— Ian Fleming (You Only Live Twice)

tags: bond, death, james, philosophy, poetry
191 people liked it

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
— William Blake

tags: poetry
29 people liked it

"What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms."
— Issa

tags: haiku, life, poetry
28 people liked it

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
— Joni Eareckson Tada (God I Love, The)

tags: faith, god, inspirational, love
140 people liked it

""Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.""
— Joni Eareckson Tada

9 people liked it

"...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory."
— Joni Eareckson Tada

tags: truth
8 people liked it

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion
105 people liked it

"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
— Voltaire

tags: god, religion
88 people liked it

"My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in god my Saviour.

Luke 1:46-47"
— Luke

tags: bible, god, joy, spirit
63 people liked it

"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"
— C.S. Lewis

tags: fantasy, god, goodness, safety, security
50 people liked it

"[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

tags: faith, god, society
61 people liked it

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, slackers
43 people liked it

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing
554 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,456 people liked it

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

tags: friend, friendship
1,622 people liked it

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, inspirational
626 people liked it

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: friendship
255 people liked it

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship
194 people liked it

"The best mirror is an old friend."
— George Herbert

tags: friendship
198 people liked it

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

tags: friend, friendship, writers
116 people liked it

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
— Charles Caleb Colton

tags: friendship
96 people liked it

"Ointment and perfume rejoice thy heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. ~~Proverbs 27:9
"
— King Solomon

tags: friendship, inspirational, religious
22 people liked it

"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
1,691 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,320 people liked it

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: books, inspirational, life, reading
938 people liked it

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

tags: books, journey, reading, travel
664 people liked it

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

tags: books, reading
613 people liked it

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: reading
564 people liked it

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates

tags: reading
459 people liked it

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading
404 people liked it

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
— Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading
96 people liked it

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: atheism, reading, religion
62 people liked it

"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
— Japanese proverb

tags: reading
56 people liked it

"When you read a book as a child,it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your life does..."
— Nora Ephron

tags: reading
53 people liked it

"â€¦only then did I wake out of the book."
— John McGahern

tags: books, reading
35 people liked it

"... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)"
— Schopenhauer

tags: reading
25 people liked it

"She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked."
— May Sinclair

tags: reading
6 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,695 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,116 people liked it

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
716 people liked it

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