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#1

“Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.”
― Martina Navratilova

#2

“The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: food, shopping

242 likes

#3

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

1833 likes

#4

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: books, culture, literature

747 likes

#5

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women

439 likes

#6

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

3194 likes

#7

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

4769 likes

#8

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

3535 likes

#9

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

1389 likes

#10

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

2406 likes

#11

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

2454 likes

#12

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”
― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

tags: carpe-diem, dancing, life

379 likes

#13

“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. ”
― Gertrude Stein

132 likes

#14

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”
― Gertrude Stein

83 likes

#15

“You have to know what you want to get it.”
― Gertrude Stein

69 likes

#16

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime

3193 likes

#17

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

4135 likes

#18

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

1750 likes

#19

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

758 likes

#20

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

tags: life-questions

1606 likes

#21

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

2566 likes

#22

“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
― Nasir-i Khusraw

814 likes

#23

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

2055 likes

#24

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

6513 likes

#25

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13155 likes

#26