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#1

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18145 likes

#2

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

1670 likes

#3

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

2306 likes

#4

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2362 likes

#5

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

1228 likes

#6

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

7948 likes

#7

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

3743 likes

#8

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

5866 likes

#9

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

1791 likes

#10

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3734 likes

#11

“I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I’m writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.”
― Don Carpenter

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#12

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

2348 likes

#13

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2625 likes

#14

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3561 likes

#15

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

2951 likes

#16

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

4569 likes

#17

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3575 likes

#18

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2047 likes

#19

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

tags: imagination

3635 likes

#20

“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

4184 likes

#21

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4349 likes

#22

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

1889 likes

#23

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

3132 likes

#24

“The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...”
― Sarah Waters

913 likes

#25

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

851 likes

#26

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3063 likes

#27

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

2476 likes

#28

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
― Emma Lazarus

tags: united-states

1023 likes

#29

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1135 likes

#30

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

1091 likes

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