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"Spelling is local, or rather national."
— A. S. Neill (Summerhill School)

tags: language, words
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"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud..."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

tags: life
47 people liked it

"It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

30 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
17,762 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,889 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,170 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
9,204 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,064 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,618 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,873 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,008 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
7,208 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,530 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,697 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,093 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,042 people liked it

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

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,224 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,531 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,193 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,905 people liked it

"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

tags: america, books, politics
1,005 people liked it

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
800 people liked it

"A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: libraries, reading
434 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
419 people liked it

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
— Saul Bellow

tags: books, libraries
200 people liked it

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
— Frank Zappa

tags: education, sex
181 people liked it

"A library is infinity under a roof."
— Gail Carson Levine

149 people liked it

"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

150 people liked it

"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: writing
113 people liked it

"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: libraries, reading
95 people liked it

"The world is quiet here."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: library, peace, quiet
100 people liked it

"Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!"
— Charles Ogden

tags: books, librarians, libraries
78 people liked it

"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: library
87 people liked it

"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

69 people liked it

"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
— Stephen Fry

tags: humor, originality
61 people liked it

"My library was dukedom large enough"
— William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

58 people liked it

"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
— Ray Bradbury

59 people liked it

"Libraries are our friends"
— Neil Gaiman

57 people liked it

"Dear me, how I love a library."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

56 people liked it

"If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job."
— John Berry

tags: books, libraries, library, reading
47 people liked it

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