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" The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
— Ecclesiastes 1:9 ( Bible KJV)

tags: bible
18 people liked it

"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ"
— Phillipian 1: 6 ( BibleKJV)

15 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,640 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,236 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,556 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,657 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,745 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,528 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

tags: kindness
661 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
2,767 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,123 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,460 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,067 people liked it

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: books
153 people liked it

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
— Jessamyn West

tags: books, fiction, reality, truth
222 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,062 people liked it

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: individuality
350 people liked it

"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."
— Jane Hamilton

54 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,636 people liked it

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: religion
161 people liked it

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
603 people liked it

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
816 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,305 people liked it

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. "
— Victor Hugo

tags: courage, inspirational
189 people liked it

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work
228 people liked it

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

tags: convictions, death, life
450 people liked it

""I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.""
— Frank Delaney (Ireland)

5 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,599 people liked it

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
170 people liked it

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs"
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: eyre, jane
110 people liked it

"I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

30 people liked it

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
— Charlotte Brontë

47 people liked it

"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent... "
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: writing
18 people liked it

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that at times strangely wills and works for itself."
— Charlotte Brontë

2 people liked it

"We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine."
— Roald Dahl (Boy: Tales of Childhood)

37 people liked it

"A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men."
— John August (3 Engel für Charlie)

tags: nonsense, wisdom
166 people liked it

"Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him."
— Francine Rivers

27 people liked it

"We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross."
— Francine Rivers (A Voice in the Wind)

11 people liked it

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
79 people liked it

"I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honour)

27 people liked it

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
— L.M. Montgomery

tags: mistakes
171 people liked it

"Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please."
— Francine Rivers (Atonement Child)

9 people liked it

"Then Circled by the golden light of God's Presence and His promise, Paul and Sierra walked side by side along the trail that lead tward the campus and on tward their Future"
— Robin Jones Gunn (Take My Hand)

7 people liked it

""Take it and be thankful.""
— Robin Jones Gunn

10 people liked it

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
— Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

tags: law
10 people liked it

"[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one."
— Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)

tags: science
2 people liked it

"On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it."
— Jules Verne

3 people liked it

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
— Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)

14 people liked it

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