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"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
2,986 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
6,534 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,256 people liked it

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
— C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader")

tags: first-sentence
166 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
140 people liked it

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
— Helen Keller

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"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everthing, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do."
— Helen Keller

tags: do, one, something
19 people liked it

"I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."
— Helen Keller

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"We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking."
— Richard Rohr

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"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: irony, life, loneliness
169 people liked it

"Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity."
— Douglas Coupland (JPod: A Novel)

31 people liked it

"We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die."
— Douglas Coupland

tags: destiny, fate, inspirational, strength
38 people liked it

"My secret is that I need God--that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love."
— Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

17 people liked it

"I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one."
— Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

15 people liked it

"I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day"
— Douglas Coupland (Microserfs)

7 people liked it

"Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?"
— Douglas Coupland (JPod)

14 people liked it

"It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?"
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: are, makes, us, we, what, who
3 people liked it

"Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words."
— Douglas Coupland (Hey Nostradamus!)

7 people liked it

"Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes."
— Douglas Coupland (Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture)

11 people liked it

"This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that."
— Douglas Coupland (Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture)

tags: family
3 people liked it

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

tags: body, soul
3,348 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,097 people liked it

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
— C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)

tags: hell, love, safe
413 people liked it

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity
218 people liked it

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: family
224 people liked it

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: love
258 people liked it

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: inspirational, prayer
234 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,371 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
6,046 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,347 people liked it

"God has spoken, and everything else is commentary."
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

13 people liked it

"Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth."
— Rob Bell

17 people liked it

"Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it."
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

10 people liked it

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