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"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind."
— Modest Mouse (Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News)

tags: music
320 people liked it

"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: death, life
332 people liked it

"Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: women
58 people liked it

"We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?"
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: love
50 people liked it

"After you get stung, you can't get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: stung
42 people liked it

"Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

36 people liked it

"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: life, page-279
26 people liked it

"There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

17 people liked it

"Sunset is the saddest light there is."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: sunlight, sunset
15 people liked it

"I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: inspirational, miracles, mystery
14 people liked it

"A book comes to me and says, "Write me.""
— Madeline L'Engle

tags: writing
2 people liked it

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability."
— Madeline L'Engle

2 people liked it

"We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are."
— Madeline L'Engle

tags: bravery, courage, identity
2 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
2,987 people liked it

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe
405 people liked it

"Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: art, truth
80 people liked it

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: age
67 people liked it

"Life, with it's rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit"
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

71 people liked it

"In my dreams, I never have an age."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: age, dreams
64 people liked it

"When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: myths
56 people liked it

"Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted."
— Madeleine L'Engle (Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage)

tags: wisdom
54 people liked it

"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, imagination
45 people liked it

"Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: work
43 people liked it

"The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: pain
34 people liked it

"It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: writing
28 people liked it

"Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet)

tags: listening
25 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,685 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,636 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,786 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,148 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

830 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
677 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
664 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

348 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)

325 people liked it

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt thou the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt I love."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: love
186 people liked it

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out into little stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
— William Shakespeare

154 people liked it

"The earth has music for those who listen."
— William Shakespeare

tags: nature
174 people liked it

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."
— William Shakespeare

tags: love, william-shakespeare
78 people liked it

"There's a few things I've learned in life: always throw salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for good luck, and fall in love whenever you can"
— William Shakespeare

tags: lavender, love, rosemary, salt, shakespeare, winter-s-tale
74 people liked it

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
76 people liked it

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. "
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

50 people liked it

"Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: historical
10 people liked it

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

6 people liked it

"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear;
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

3 people liked it

"Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
4 people liked it

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life world: that word is love."
— Sophocles

tags: love, pain
49 people liked it

"if i am young and wrong, then you are right. But if i am young, and right. what does my age matter?
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— Sophocles (Antigone)

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

""Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.""
— Sophocles (Antigone)

4 people liked it

""Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.""
— Sophocles (Antigone)

3 people liked it

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