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#1

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

#2

“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.”
― Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer

tags: decisions, life, memories

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#3

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

4632 likes

#4

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

1929 likes

#5

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

1552 likes

#6

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3804 likes

#7

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4457 likes

#8

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

1732 likes

#9

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

2045 likes

#10

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”
― Mario Batali

999 likes

#11

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

3341 likes

#12

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

5114 likes

#13

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

2117 likes

#14

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

2251 likes

#15

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

150600 likes

#16

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101489 likes

#17

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

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69529 likes

#18

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

36810 likes

#19

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

126725 likes

#20

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2469 likes

#21

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

8624 likes

#22

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

1439 likes

#23

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

1423 likes

#24

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

1281 likes

#25

“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

1543 likes

#26

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3948 likes

#27

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

2757 likes

#28

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

tags: books, inspirational, reading

2761 likes

#29

“I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

tags: cinder, cyborg, girl, humor, marissa-meyer

1343 likes

#30

“Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?"
"Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

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