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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,254 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,309 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,094 people liked it

"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
9,194 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,158 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
418 people liked it

"War is what happens when language fails."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: war
324 people liked it

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing
1,100 people liked it

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

tags: reading
2,956 people liked it

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: inspirational, love
333 people liked it

"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (El Masnavi)

tags: grief
50 people liked it

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
243 people liked it

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
— Rabindranath Tagore

16 people liked it

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
— Robert Frost

tags: love
534 people liked it

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

tags: laughter
463 people liked it

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
— Robert Frost

tags: poetry
206 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,593 people liked it

"The first draft of anything is shit."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
133 people liked it

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing
131 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
1,954 people liked it

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: love, morning
174 people liked it

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
89 people liked it

"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson

60 people liked it

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
54 people liked it

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
— William Faulkner

79 people liked it

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