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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: writing
565 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing
422 people liked it

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

216 people liked it

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: neurosis
169 people liked it

"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
— Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

tags: mood-swings
207 people liked it

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: goals
160 people liked it

"Is there no way out of the mind?"
— Sylvia Plath

114 people liked it

"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: god
99 people liked it

"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: expectations
90 people liked it

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: curiosity, women
1,568 people liked it

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor
147 people liked it

"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: women
118 people liked it

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor
105 people liked it

"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."
— Dorothy Parker

58 people liked it

"Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)

tags: humor
32 people liked it

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

tags: life
1,229 people liked it

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

335 people liked it

"A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one"
— Anoymous

2 people liked it

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay)

tags: fig, first
62 people liked it

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: sadness
62 people liked it

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: rena, silverman, virginia, woolf
43 people liked it

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

67 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
17,747 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
14,341 people liked it

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: hermione
697 people liked it

"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: wit
577 people liked it

"I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

22 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,798 people liked it

"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: vamps-dont-sparkle
1,898 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
187 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
675 people liked it

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