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"You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: growing, up
29 people liked it

"There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

25 people liked it

"If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: colours
19 people liked it

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
— J.M. Barrie

5 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,238 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,361 people liked it

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
— C.S. Lewis (The World's Last Night: And Other Essays)

tags: age, fairy-tales
203 people liked it

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: truth
175 people liked it

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. "
— C.S. Lewis (The Great Divorce)

tags: free-will, hell
128 people liked it

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
— C.S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold)

tags: beauty, longing
36 people liked it

"At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly."
— C.S. Lewis

25 people liked it

"Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
22 people liked it

"How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?"
— C.S. Lewis

13 people liked it

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth...you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: inspirational
8 people liked it

"To say the very thing you mean,the whole of it,nothing more or less or other than what you really mean,that is the whole art and joy of words."
— C.S. Lewis

7 people liked it

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: laughter
421 people liked it

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
— Audrey Hepburn

152 people liked it

"If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: fairy-tales
111 people liked it

"I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls."
— Audrey Hepburn

60 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
10,386 people liked it

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: girls, love
817 people liked it

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: love
232 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,871 people liked it

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

326 people liked it

"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal"
— William Shakespeare

349 people liked it

"Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad…

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— John Keats

3 people liked it

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. "
— Lucille Ball

tags: happiness
73 people liked it

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
— Groucho Marx

196 people liked it

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, wisdom
125 people liked it

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

51 people liked it

"In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different."
— Coco Chanel

tags: individuality
79 people liked it

"I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed."
— Coco Chanel

tags: couture, fashion
10 people liked it

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
— Coco Chanel

tags: luxury, poverty, vulgarity
6 people liked it

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."
— Charlie Chaplin

32 people liked it

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
— Woody Allen

tags: success
119 people liked it

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

tags: love
106 people liked it

"Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about."
— Nicole Krauss

tags: books, writing
11 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,022 people liked it

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

533 people liked it

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

50 people liked it

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: encouragement, leadership
28 people liked it

"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

20 people liked it

"Beauty without expression is boring."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty
15 people liked it

"You become what you think about all day long."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
14 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
17,835 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,947 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

"The object of Art is to give life a shape."
— William Shakespeare

75 people liked it

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."
— John Keats

tags: music
77 people liked it

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
— John Keats

tags: art, life
53 people liked it

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